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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
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