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"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
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"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."

"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."

"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."

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

"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."

"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."

"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 everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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"I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system."

"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."

"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."

"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
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