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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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"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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"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
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
Being
"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."
Man
"Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good."
War
"The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns."
Being
"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
Interest
"I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge."
Humor
"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot."
Mind
"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
Illusion
"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."
Wealth
"Write a page a day. It will add up."
Writing
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