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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
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Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
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How can I be sure I’ve succeeded, if I can’t remember what I was trying to do?
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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