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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

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Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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