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  • The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
  • Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
  • Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
  • I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
  • Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
  • I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
  • People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
  • If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Ben Johnson Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Morgan A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
    Tatyana Tolstaya
     
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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Paxton Hood Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
    Paxton Hood
     
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  • André Malraux Be careful - with quotations, you can damn anything.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Alexander Cockburn Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • W. Clement Stone Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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