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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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Personal Development
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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Personal Development
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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Personal Development
"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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Personal Development
"Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices."
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Personal Development
"The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you."
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Personal Development
"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
End
"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
People
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Truth
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
People
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
Advice
"People change and forget to tell each other."
Change
"God forgives those who invent what they need."
God
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
Time
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
Advice
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
Courage
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