"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

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"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

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"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."

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"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."

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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

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"I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."

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