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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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