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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words."

"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."

"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."

"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."

"Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat."

"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth."
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