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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Who were these clowns?
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

To try to be better is to be better.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Well done is better than well said.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

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