"Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results."
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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
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"The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."
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"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."
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"A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees."
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
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"I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
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"My reputation grows with every failure."
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"Violence is the repartee of the illiterate."
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"Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors."
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"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
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"Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand."
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"Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."
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"The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."
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"Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal."
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"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
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"Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness."
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"Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth."
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