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Quotes by American Authors
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
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"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
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"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."
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"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
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"The more successful I become, the more I need a man."
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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
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"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
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"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."
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"What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player."
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"Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade."
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"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
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"Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others."
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"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."
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"I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there."
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"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
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"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
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"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
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"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
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"Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life."
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"Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules."
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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
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"Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector."
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"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."
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"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
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"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
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"Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home."
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"Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us."
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