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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

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I must acknowledge an interest, or rather a dismay, in discussing this 'family memoir,' for from experience and observation I have come to regard the American Nuclear Family in the last 50 years as the enemy of individual determination, of personal autonomy--in short, as a disease.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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