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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Problems World Solved Skeptics
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Law Life.stand World Past
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Real Life Cities Sense
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort Courage Enough Purpose
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Women Active Politic Nervous
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Free Once Spirit Human
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Believe General Men Quick
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Pain Endure Patience Die
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Causes Trivial Result Events
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Assertion Men Created Equally
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Ballots Rightful Peacefula Successors
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

First Know Tending Judge
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
I Care Man Religion
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

People Self-possession Clouds Nation
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Victory Right Bloody Bullets
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold

Gold Good Loving Brave
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I Pass Life Preventing
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

People Right Asset Maintain
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Folks Happy Minds
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Worry Recognized Strive Worthy
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Four Basic Human Need
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Certain Dreams Hopes Like
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

People Detail Private Life
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Give Only Poor Refuse
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Appetite Both Change Food
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Broken Easily Evil Habits
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Everything Examining Expected Find
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Ambition Itself Often Parent
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Alone Desire Excite Forbidden
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Gifts Natural Rules Technical
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Alone Educated Fathers Highly
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Almost Body Differs Gifts
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Clean Constant Freedom Hath
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Amazing Find Internet Love
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Asking Big George Going
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Always Buddy Cameras Career
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Balanced Easy Find Gifts
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People only see what they are prepared to see.

Only People Prepared See
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Happiness Unhappiness Heart Spirit
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Hear Loudly Saying Speaks
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Dream Grounded Feet Life
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When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

Surrounded Children Child You
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