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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."

"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
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