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Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
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Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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