"Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny."
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"I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms."
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"There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
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"The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it."
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"Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!"
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"He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go."
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"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where."
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"A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is."
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"The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you."
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"Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand."
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"Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction."
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"Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth."
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"The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do."
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"He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue."
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"He does not weep who does not see."
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"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."
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"Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know."
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"I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does."
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"The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters."
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"Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done."
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