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“Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.”

Robert Breault

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Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

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Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

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Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

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There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

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One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

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I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

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In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

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The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

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Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

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To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

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For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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