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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Source: On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962) -
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Creative life is characterized by spontaneous mutability: it brings forth unknown issues, impossible to preconceive.
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Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
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