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 A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.  A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. Here's a toast to someone who's truly a best friend - a person who goes around telling good things behind your back. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through, if you are a crook or a martyr. The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents. There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good. We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when? - Talmud 
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