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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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Clinical
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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.
Abbie Hoffman
Chose
Doctors
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
Ear
Elegance
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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.
Aaron Sorkin
Issues
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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.
Walter Benjamin
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin
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Judgments
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
Greatest
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Nature
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
Element
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot
Slight
Gentle
Luxury
Air
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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.
Walter Bagehot
Best
Certain
Every
Marked
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
Any
Because
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Robin Williams
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Acting
Another
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield
Being
Everyone
Hates
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
Acting
Actor
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We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney Dangerfield
Apart
Dinner
Doing
Everything
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. Cummings
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Had
His
Instant
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings
Better
Fate
Kisses
Than
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
Rodney Dangerfield
Coming
Coming Home
Door
Home
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty
Development
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield
Bath
Could
Hated
Me
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
Rodney Dangerfield
Chocolate
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
Concentrated
Energy
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Real
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
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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.
Walter Bagehot
Art
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Certain
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
Mistake
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Company
Feel
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
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Life
Accept
Action
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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.
Samuel Johnson
Book
Greatest
Half
Library
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Aaron Sorkin
Different
Manner
Might
Much
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
Aaron Sorkin
Asked
Attention
Drama
Gotten
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
Victor Borge
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Cure
Died
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin
Area
Communication
Communication Skills
Day
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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.
Aaron Sorkin
Agent
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Aaron Sorkin
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
Always
Been
Concentrated
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
Aaron Sorkin
Drama
I Think
Life
Much
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
Could
Economy
Few
Government
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Aaron Sorkin
Create
Entertainment
Eyes
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
Capacity
Greater
Our
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan
Authority
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Best
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan
Absolutely
After
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Danger
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan
Around
Been
Creator
Environmental
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu Reeves
Because
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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
Keanu Reeves
Just
Felt
That
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello
Life
My
Ultimate
Vocation
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
Believe
Connected
Human
I Believe
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert F. Kennedy
Dedicate
Gentle
Greeks
Let Us
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert F. Kennedy
All Our Lives
Black
Go
God
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
America
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Diversity
Freedom
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
Elvis Costello
Anybody
Changed
Innovation
Internet
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