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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form one inevitably ends up with an egg.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird! He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant.
We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government.
When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: The situation is normal.
The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
Question: I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work? Answer: If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.
