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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Absolutely Bold Criticism Foe
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Always Analytic Fact Found
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Cigarette General He Me
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Argument Brought Evidently Evil
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

About Again Before Clear
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Another Came Cement Felt
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Chocolate Cook Got Made
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Around Barriers Constraints Erect
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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Answers Bible Covers Face
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Always Choose Free Peace
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
About Carelessness Falsehood Intentionally
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Advance Always Eye Know
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Advantages Better Carries Countries
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Appearance Head Her Improves
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Children Making Necessary Parents
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Back Daylight Going Hour
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Anything Goes Inside Limited
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Borrow Good Great Other
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Am Done Earned Everyone
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality

I Think Internet Reality Reality TV
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

About AIDS Anything Bush
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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

About Cleopatra Going Lot
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Real Shake Shakes Sweat
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