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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Men Dead Hang Right
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

World Bright Men Say
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Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Fellow Twice Failure Dozen
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
Principles Fashioned Noble Life
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What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Know Club Meat-ax Fellow
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

Dealings Remember Opportunity Tomorrow
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

College Student Educating Eliminate
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

College Fools Develop
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ThereÂ’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

Cure Foolishness Man Leave
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearance Deceitful Deceive
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But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
People Think Young
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A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Man Company Early Late
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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Man Fellow Money
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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
Great Secret Management Earger
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Might Reality Men Absolutely
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

Vast Carload Facts Sloshing
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Test Courage Die Live
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A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Usurper Distrust World
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Deep Daughter Deep Silence
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.

Liars Disposed Swear
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Laws Broken Tremble
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Age Things Mind
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All things deteriorate in time.

Things Deteriorate Time
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
Afternoon Allowed Amazed Better
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Confidence Place Rest
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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Better Times Now Wretched
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Done Enough Equal EqualRights
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Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Endure Present Things
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Allow Charlatans Dictators Engineer
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Man God Own Desire
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Cadillac Deserves Every Everyone
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Go forth a conqueror and win great victories
Forth Conqueror Victories
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Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

Although Days Easy Life
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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Hug Shore Deep
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

American Businesses Car Credit
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Misfortune Acquainted Learn
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Back Banks Burned Good
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Passion Strife Mind
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

American Anyone Because Been
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Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Youth Proposal Score
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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
Faults Just Media People
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

Am Among Anyone Big
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Strife Vanquished Dead
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Against Animal Basic Being
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They succeed, because they think they can
Succeed Think
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It means zero to be against greed

Against Greed Means Zero
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Time flies never to be recalled.

Time Flies Recalled
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