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"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
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"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."
"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms."
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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