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"Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting."
"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark."
"Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!"
"Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it."
"In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity."
"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
"You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories."
"As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case."
"The world is everything that is the case."
"I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there."
"One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time."
"Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others."
"Most of us have to think worst-case scenario."
"Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me."
"It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists."
"There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case."
"We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded."
"Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true."
