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“We only do well the things we like doing.”
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“Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.”
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“For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.”
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“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart — and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”
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“He followed me like an unpaid bill ...”
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“Teen-agers have their hangups, / Every mother knows. / But one thing is for certain; / That doesn't include their clothes.”
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“The musician's enthusiasm greatly outweighed her talent.”
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“When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.”