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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."
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"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."

"To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life."

"God asked us to get His knowledge and wisdom to build a predictable life rather than expecting miracles."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."

"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."

"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."

"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."

"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."

"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."

"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."

"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
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