"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."
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"Respect is not a one way street"
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"For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt."
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"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."
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"Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way."
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"I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business."
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"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."
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"The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity."
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"Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway."
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"The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
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"The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words."
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"I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend."
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"An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question."
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"Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl."
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"It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish."
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"No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them."
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"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
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"Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets."
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"Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed."
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"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
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