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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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