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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."

"If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated."

"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."

"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."

"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."

"You already have the most important tool which is work."

"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."

"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."

"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
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"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."


"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."


"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."


"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."


"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."


"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."


"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
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