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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
"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."
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"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."
"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
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