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It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment. The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!" Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more. I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. What does not destroy me, makes me strong. To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. I'm from Missouri; you must show me. The Nature of This Flower is to bloom. Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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