"A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul."

-- Hugh Black

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“My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”
“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.”

Source : Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.
“If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.”
“I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.”
“However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.”
“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”
“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.”

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