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"As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation"
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."


"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."


"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."


"I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.'(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are."


"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."


"Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things."
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