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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
"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"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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"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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"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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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"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
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
Success
"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
God
"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
Belief
"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
People
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby
"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."
Truth
"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
People
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