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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
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The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
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The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
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The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
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The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
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The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
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