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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."
Thought

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
Time

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
Society

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
Courage

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
Want

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."
Strength

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."
Change

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
Age

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Love

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
Sex
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"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."
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"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
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