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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
Sleep
"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
Politics
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Writing
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
Age
"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
Being
"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."
Man
"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
Reading
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
Books
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
Peace
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
Lifestyle
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