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"History is more or less bunk."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side."

"Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total."

"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other."

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

"France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history."

"Film lovers are sick people."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?"

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you."

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."