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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
You earn But how Spend it That fixes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.

People read Fiction Emotion Not information
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I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

I think An error Believe Any need
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Major tragedies More discomforting Hearty affection Old friends
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

So earnest About morality I hate Essentially immoral
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

Many people Are eager Things Wish one
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

One thing More disconcerting Than intelligent Demanding love
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

A man Takes A drink Takes another
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

Love One thing Can really Lighten all
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Important part Living The pondering Upon it
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

Not understand Ministers presume Deliver sermons Appointed hours
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

Making movie Capture reality A photograph
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Sanitized violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Sanitized violence In movies Been accepted Upset everybody
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If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Be written Or thought Be filmed
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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Everything Has been done Every story Been shot
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

The test A work The end Our affection
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I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Doing interview The problem Being misquoted
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The best education in film is to make one.

Best education In film Make one
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Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Never Say no An idea Will ignite
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Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Be suspicious People Crave Power
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Very meaninglessness Life Forces man To create
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Always know I want Do know Don't want
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

A mistake Confuse pity With love
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Not afraid Dying tomorrow Being killed
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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Art consist Reshaping life Create life
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The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The truth A thing The feel The think
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Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

You care You don't The way
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive.

The dead Know only One thing Is better
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life Will learn Too late The living
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Great believer In luck The harder I work
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising The science Arresting Human intelligence
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Astronomy teachers Correct us The sun The planets
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Ancient times No statistics Fall back On lies
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Men To trust Exact degree Dishonesty
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Political economy Politics Economy
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Two things Ordinary conversation People dislike Information
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Detest Life insurance Always argue Some day
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Stop feeling sorry Be happy
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Only reason Care Incurious Foolish failing
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I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A lover Truth Worshiper Freedom
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

No adolescent Ever wants Be understood They complain
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Having Great intellect No path Being happy
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I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

Wake up Each morning I think May reinvent
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

Education The sum What students Teach
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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

People Can change More reliable Happier
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humor is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Seriousness Guarantee Truth Authenticity
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.

Sticks Stones May break My bones
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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Fat Greedy My mind Curious
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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Real education Takes place Lecture hall The rooms
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Life, that can shower you with so much splendor, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Life Shower you Much splendor Unremittingly cruel
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