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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Bernard M. Baruch
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One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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