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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

Director Excites Film Happens
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If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.

About AllNight Ask Cents
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South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.

Bits Complicated Country Estate
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The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

Actually Afraid American Because
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I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club.

Afternoon Brother Club Come
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Asking Better BetterWay Going
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Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.
Always Been Came First
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

Done Few Grease Musicals
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

Australia Back Because Exotic
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arm Forever Gives Govern
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Advancement Diffusion Guardian Knowledge
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Blood Ceaseless Centuries Church
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Control Enable First Framing
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Because Develops Dreaded Enemies
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Bondage Enterprise Every Mind
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Both Done Doubt Every
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Affairs Betray Calculate Every
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Different Different Opinions Exercise Fallible
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Abolition Capital Capital Punishment Entire
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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

Community Each EachOne Finds
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If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

Another Cognitive Criticize Deeply
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Arithmetic Important ImportantThing Lives
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

Based Basis Become Build
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

Forget Higher Insight Knowledge
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Also Around Complimentary Everyone
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Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'

About Anthropology His Intellect
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Hate funerals Who's dead Alive
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I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
Anymore Life Live Living
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Almost Because Beyond Clearly
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When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Come home My daughter Door Hug
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