"Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life."
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"You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress."
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"When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?"
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"The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?"
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"Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass."
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"Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state."
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"[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie."
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"If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want."
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"Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want."
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"The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!"
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"The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us."
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"If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it."
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"Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love."
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"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
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"Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria."
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"If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him."
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"That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say."
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"Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends."
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"I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end."
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"I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature."
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