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

"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

"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."

"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."

"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."

"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."

"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses."

"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity."

"Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive."

"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
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"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."

"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."
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