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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Source: Endymion (1818) I, 1 -
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244 -
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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