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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
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When somebody doesn't use common sense, I get frustrated. When I'm driving down the highway and someone is in the left-hand lane, and they're going very slow, sometimes I just go around them, and other times I'll be in the mood where I flash my lights and yell at them, like, 'What the heck are you doing? Get the heck out of my way!'
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When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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