"The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings."
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"This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money."
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"To learn is to be young, however old."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it."
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"Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation."
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"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
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"Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself."
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"My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered"
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"You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value."
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"Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache"
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"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
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"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"
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"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
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"It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live."
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"All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words."
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"What a man does not know is greater than he."
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"Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!"
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"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure."
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