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"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
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"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do."

"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."

"Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster."

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."

"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."

"I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget."

"Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm."

"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win."

"Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances."
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"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."


"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."


"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God."


"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."


"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
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