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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."

"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."

"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."

"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."

"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."

"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
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