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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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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 look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.
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