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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Really Know Person Shoes
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.

Remember Always easy Look back Yesterday
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Bringing Democracy First First Time
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

You see Never understand Live Way
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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Conclusion People Peculiar Withdrew
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Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Courage Licked See Matter
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in

All Day Day Having Nothing
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Bitterest tears Over graves Words Unsaid
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Common sense Seeing things Doing Ought to
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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.
Treat Dogs Works Actions
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Never Give up Place Time
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Been said Beautiful Young girls Wake up
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Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Confusing First First Thing Girl
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Scenes Blood Cruelty Heart
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Really great Truly noble Everyday life
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Arm Around Call Gentle
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I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Braver Have Lost all Nothing
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Freshness Solemnity Insensate man
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Big Desk Happiness Small
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike.
All ranks Life Human heart Beautiful things
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.

Insecure Joke Line More
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And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.

Among us Generous spirit Estimate honour Dollar
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But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.

Life Kingdom Trust Matter
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise

Resolve Grace Silence Fault findings
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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All men are free and equal, in the grave,

All men Free In grave
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Glorious Nation Man Freedom
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There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

Political folks Round Plain right
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The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today

The past Present Future Today
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Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story,—the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper.

Look High World Same story
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Cannot Course Disprove Fairies
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There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.

Times Have thought Country Sink
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Time Tell us We did
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Really Love Theater Unmerciful life
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
Believe Never be Limited You do
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. 

Alwys admit Wrong Save thousands Friendships
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Believe Connected Positive energy Power
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Anyone Smart phone Potential eyewitness
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art Power Transform Illuminate
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Theater Temple Religion Faith
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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