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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
A Distant Mirror -
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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