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"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
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". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."
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"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
"Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth."
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"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."
"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."
"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them."
"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want."
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