It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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The human is the only guilty animal.

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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

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To be alive at all is to have scars.

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