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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.
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Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."
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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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