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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

"A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe."

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
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