"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."
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"When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all."
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"To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot."
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"A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them."
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"Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid."
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"Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things."
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"Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?"
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
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"The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens."
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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"Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean."
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"When one teaches, two learn."
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"What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease."
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"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night"
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"The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur."
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