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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

"Carpe per diem-seize the check."

"Reality is the best possible cure for dreams."

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

"Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln."

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."

"Nature composes some of her lovliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

"There is no wealth but life."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."