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“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
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It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Great Strides Resolute Purpose
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Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Ready Learn Being Taught
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Demand Special Gift Touch
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“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Advance Thinking Worrying Planning
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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I just sit in my office and read all day.

Office Sit Read Day
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You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Can't Make Deal Person
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
Knew Met Adventure Happen
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

People Work Admire Should
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Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Saving Spend Left What
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Advantage Being Always Discover
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Piglet Though Small Heart
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Hunger Descendant Temper Have
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Happy Better Survive Positive
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Escape Tomorrow You Evading
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If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Can Die Once Over
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Can Stand Test Power
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It t

Understand Man Exciting Challenge
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

Advice Logical Consistent Love
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Beautiful Divorce Escrow Compulsive
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow Pay Done Suffer
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

Wrong Woman Advance Encourage
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Human Nature Change Future
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Seem Strange Dare Judge
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