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"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

"In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas."

"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."

"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."
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