"It is today that we create the world of the future."
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"Curiosity must be kept alive."
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"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
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"This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."
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"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."
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"The mind must be trained, rather than the memory."
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"The only joy in this hard life is serving others."
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"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."
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"It's your life-but only if you make it so."
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"To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes."
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
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"I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him."
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"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself."
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself."
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"I never waste time looking back."
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"Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive."
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"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."
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"Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed."
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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