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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."

"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."
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