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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."
"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."
"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."
"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."
"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."
"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."
"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect."
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