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You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.
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You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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Your lover who just walked out the door, has taken all his blankets from your floor.
Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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