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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66 -
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928) -
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
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The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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