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Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
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The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
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The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Source: Once Around the Sun (1951) -
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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