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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
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Anything that he can
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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