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"If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic."
"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
"Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back."
"George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?"
"I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three."
"You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions."
"It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings."
"We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different."
"One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians."
"It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love."
"Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio."
"In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago."
"If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?"
"The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do."
"Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least."
"Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in."
"As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority."
"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it"
"Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result."
"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical."
