"A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling â€œThief.â€ If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining."

-- Ben Hecht

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“A girl could lather up in soap like that.”
“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”
“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.”
“It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.”
“The money will go but the trophies will always be there.”
“You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.”

Source : In Life 16 Jan. 1956
“He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.”
“I'm not a good guitar player.”

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