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"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
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"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."

"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."

"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."

"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."

"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."

"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."

"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."

"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."

"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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