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"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
Business
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
Prohibition
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
Work
"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
Integrity
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
Creativity
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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