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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
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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."

"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."

"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."

"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."

"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."
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"As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects."

"My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them."

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession."

"A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open."
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