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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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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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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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