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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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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

Power Grow Over Except
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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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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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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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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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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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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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Exclusive Sign Knowledge Power
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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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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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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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“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.”

Everyone Day Longer Others
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

Empire Future Mind The
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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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“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 ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Endure Comfort Ease Time
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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To love someone is to identify with them.
Love Identify Someone Them
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

World Before Halfway Around
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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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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Expensive Look Cheap Suit
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If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

Luckiest Humanity Percent Owe
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Tide Discover Naked When
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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Fear Others
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Watch this pickpocket! “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Stock Market Hyperactive Enterprise
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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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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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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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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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The Greatest Enemies of Equity Investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Enemy Equity Investor Great
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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Stock Buying Quality Marked
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