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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."

"Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!"

"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."

"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."

"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."

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

"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."

"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

"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."

"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
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"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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