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• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
• People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are…
• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source…
• When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...
• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…
• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in…
• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty…
• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
• It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate…
• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that…

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