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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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