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“... America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.”
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“I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.”
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“... it was not so much a change as an awakening — the awakening that comes when through a child's illusion of being a passenger on someone else's ship breaks the realization that one is all by oneself in a little boat of one's own — but that the boat can be rowed and steered somewhat in the direction, at least, of the destination one chooses.”
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“Love is a dangerous angel ... Especially nowadays.”
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“... fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.”
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“Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.”
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“By changing ourselves, we are doing the only thing we can do to change the world. To say that it is not enough is a lack of will, a lack of faith. It must be enough, for it is everything.”
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“... when something intolerable is in my life, I head for the water. It leavens me in some way. Some middlemost part of me is soothed and silenced by it.”