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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Anarchism Anarchist Any Because
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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.

Personally free Human activities Life
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As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

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To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

Actor Behind Ends Far
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Real freedom Mastery Knowledge Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

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I try to act out of faith.
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.

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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the non totalitarian world.

Existence Non totalitarian world
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

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My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

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I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

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That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

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It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Been Ever Fact Just
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In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

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It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

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None of my characters have really had jobs.

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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it

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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

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