"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
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"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
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"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
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"People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance."
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"Let justice be done though the heavens should fall."
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"With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world"
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"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
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"I call architecture frozen music."
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"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
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"Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole."
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"The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization."
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"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."
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"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
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"I'm never scared, they never real, I never run. When all is said and done, more is always said than done."
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"Carpe every damn diem."
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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now."
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"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself."
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"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."
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"If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader."
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