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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
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