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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"I am still learning."
Learning
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
Time
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Beauty
"Genius is eternal patience."
Genius
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
Death
"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
Love
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
Faith
"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
Life
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Desire
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