"Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first."

-- Josh Billings

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“Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.”
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”
“Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.”
“Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.”
“Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.”
“I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.”

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“Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.”
“Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile. So I would put the emphasis of a good life on activity, on the walk rather than the destination, and I think that most of the things that any of us do that are really valuable and really important are projects that we really shouldn't expect to be completed in our lifetime because if they could completed in our lifetime, they probably wouldn't be so important that we should devote our lives to them.”

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