Illegal

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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Conversation with Melih Esenbel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, March 10, 1975, The Foreign Minister's Office, Ankara, Turkey

The cards you're dealt

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Not perfect

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

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From a note he once got back from Sycamore Cleaners upon struggling to clean his leather jacket. "So I'm having that on my tombstone", as he told to David Letterman

Reality defined

I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.

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Reality and technology

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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Experience

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes

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Lady Windermere's Fan 

Moralizes

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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Lady Windermere's Fan 

Rules

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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Lady Windermere's Fan