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" The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. "

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" Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. "

" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "

" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. "

" Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. "

" A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. "

" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. "

" College is a refuge from hasty judgment. "

" The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. "

" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. "

" A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. "

" The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. "

" You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. "

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. "

" Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. "

" If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. "

" Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. "

" By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. "

" Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. "

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

" I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. "

" A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. "

" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. "

" There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. "