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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
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The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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