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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Comb Dew Gray Hairs
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Eye Hunting Knife Never
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Always Anybody Between Came
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Considers Crime Going Happy
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Art Controlling Environment Politics
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You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Better Care Gonna Hands
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Beauty Every Instance Many
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If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Crazy Else Get Going
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Caught Closed Crime Everybody
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Around Bummer Hooked Like
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Clear Despite Efforts Make
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Dies Freedom Something Unless
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
Reason Tomorrow Weirdness Why
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Another Ignorance Just Paranoia
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Allowed American Been Corrupt
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Been Ever Here Journalism
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Cause Effect Ends Journalism
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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Anticipate Democracy Evolved Jefferson
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Against Happens Just Law
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Between Difference Insane Lock
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
Fun Might Politics Serious
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ability Beyond Despite Good
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art Crazy Insane Law
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Art Concealing Impatience Patience
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Evangelism is selling a dream.

Dream Selling Evangelism Religion
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A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

About Good Good Idea Hard
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Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Across Always Best Best Way
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What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Compensate Grind Lack Life
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It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Bad Bad Time Company Entrepreneur
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The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Business Care Computer Customers
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When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Finally Found Got Hard
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Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

Coming Country Customs Europe
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Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

Business Capitalists Contact Entrepreneur
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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Entrepreneurship Everyone Business For
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Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
Because Buck Change Change The World
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If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Business Current Difference Entrepreneur
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I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

Born Few Good I Think
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It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

Big Big Companies Companies Create
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Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Better Create Make More
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I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Consider Family Father Financial
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I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Four Friends Kids Make
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Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Believing Different Get Owes
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Delight Fill Get Goal
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