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- Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's…
- A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
- Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But…
- If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.…
- How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy…
- We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have…
- Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the…
- It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask,…
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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- The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. — Lance Armstrong
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