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"All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them."
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"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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"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
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"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
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"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."
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"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."
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"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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"Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it."
Responsibility
"I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies."
Honor
"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."
Perseverance
"The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information."
Universe
"There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her."
Love
"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite."
Imagination
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."
Science
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood."
Infinity
"Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction."
Destiny
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