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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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