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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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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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I just sit in my office and read all day.

Office Sit Read Day
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Some People Care Love
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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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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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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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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dream Long Together Time
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Sometime Thing Room Heart
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

River There Hurry Shall
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Appear Patient Simply Fluff
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Snowball Important Life Long
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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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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Value Along Listen Hear
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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Hard Brave Very Small
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Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.

What Before That Mixed
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Little Other Make Difference
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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
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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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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Darling Name Everyone Because
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and

Language Married Nationality Dictionary
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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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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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Woman Amusing Diet Time
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Bills Choose Want Man
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
You Really Man Divorce
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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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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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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My will is mine ... I shall not make it soft for you.

Will Mine Make Soft
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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 burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better Silent Fool Doubt
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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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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

Important Woman Beautiful Entertaining
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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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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Fine Future Small Piece
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