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"Grub first, then ethics."
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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic."
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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
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"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
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"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
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"Grub first, then ethics."
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"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
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"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
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"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
Happiness
"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."
Poverty
"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
Society
"It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead."
Action
"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart."
People
"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
Peace
"What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough."
Life
"Everyone needs help from everyone."
Help
"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."
People
"You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured."
God
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