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" The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. "

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" It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. "

" It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. "

" Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. "

" With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. "

" It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. "

" The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. "

" Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. "

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" Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. "

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" To the old, the new is usually bad news. "

" Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. "

" Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. "

" The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. "

" The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. "

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

" Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. "

" The greatest weariness comes from work not done. "

" It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. "

" Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. "

" We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. "

" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "

" There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. "

" It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. "

" When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. "

" Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. "

" Animals often strike us as passionate machines. "

" We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "

" One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. "