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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"

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Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

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That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

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One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

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