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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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