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The farther north you go, the hotter it gets.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The best way out is always through.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
People fail forward to success.

"Cutting down" on drinking doesn't work; cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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