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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
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