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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
Life

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
Work

"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it."
Work

"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."
First

"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
Public

"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
Truth

"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
People

"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
Experience

"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
Difference

"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."
Today
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