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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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