"Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness."
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"She who means no mischief does it all."
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"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals."
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"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave."
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"Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle."
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"There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing."
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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."
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"Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies."
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"You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his."
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"If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex."
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"What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?"
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"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
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"It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally."
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"Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption."
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"It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal."
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"God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness."
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"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
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"People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?"
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"Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars."
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper."
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