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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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Personal Development
"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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Personal Development
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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Personal Development
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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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
"To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself."
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Personal Development
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Personal Development
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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Personal Development
"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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Personal Development
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain."
Sports
"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt."
Wealth
"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."
Money
"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
Business
"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."
Art
"I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony."
Dream
"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."
Peace
"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
Work
"A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him."
Love
"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."
Advice
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