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| (Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders |
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| A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
| Babies; God; Life |
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| A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. |
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| A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. |
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| A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. |
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| All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. |
| Action; Failure |
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| All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. |
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| And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? |
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| Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. |
| Anger; Passion; Relationships |
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| Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. |
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| Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. |
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| I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. |
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| I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? |
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| I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty. |
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| I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. |
| Age; Women |
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| I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. |
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| I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. |
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| I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. |
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| I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar |
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