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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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"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
"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."
"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."
"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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"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."
"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."
"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."
"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."
"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
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