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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

"When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers."

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."

"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

"Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information."

"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."

"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."

"It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."

"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."

"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."

"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
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