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Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.
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May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
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One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.
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One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.
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Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.
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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never ''takes.'' You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
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No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.
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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
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Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others
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Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.
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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
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Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.
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Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?