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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Become Corporate Death Guard
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Baseball Bat Give Give Me
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Cheap Dope Free Gone
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions
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There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Being Between Difference Never
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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Against Always Blows Change
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

First History Morrow Peace
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Issues Terribly Black White
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Books Public Quarrels
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Admiring Cure House Look
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Better Dangerous Forget Idea
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I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
Dogs Good Good Time Had
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
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Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
Between Does Easier Honor
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Ability Acting Another Character
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I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

Awe Because Benefit Done
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Dogs Family Found Looked
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Broke Fight Game Hockey
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Fight Full He Hope
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Become Courage Grow Grow Up
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Wonderful World Is Mud
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed

Alone Born Complaining Crying
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Autumn Away Blown I Think
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Better Body Like More
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Any Battle Being Best
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Amazing Blue Day Dream
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Bird Dance How Learn
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Calendar Day Getting Jealousy
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Always Day Did Eye
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A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Come Day Girl Home
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When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Cat Covering Kept Me
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