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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."

"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."

"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."

"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."

"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."

"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

"You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others."

"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."

"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
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