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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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I would say that the important thing, and I think it is at least 33 1/3 percent important, is to get with the right associates. I took a cut in salary to be back at the Biograph Studio, and I have always felt that it was a wise move. When you feel that you are with the right concern, you give a good deal of yourself in order to become valuable to your employers.
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For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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We must set out to do a good job irrespective of race. We must seek to do our life's work so well that nobody could do it better.
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Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor. And since our race admires gallantry, the writer will deal with it where he finds it. He finds it in the struggling poor now.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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Outrageous party-writers are like a couple of makebates, who inflame small quarrels by a thousand stories.
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