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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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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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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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