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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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