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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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Personal Development
"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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Personal Development
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up."
Time
"I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good."
Care
"It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office."
Money
"I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much."
Nothing
"I'm working myself to death."
Death
"When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice."
Pretty
"Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I."
Power
"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me."
Death
"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry."
Food
"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
Father
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