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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Class Else Money Nothing
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Believe Consist Doing Duties
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Any Cannot Climb He
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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Act Because Born Day
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability Anything Anything Else Else
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Buys Grow His Morgan
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Joy Noblest Pleasure Understanding
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Brings Day Death Happy
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Ancient Better Imitate Modern
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Bag Hand Hope Like
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Boards Cast Compass He
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
Breaks Her Laws Nature
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Does Eyes Ignorance Mislead
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Any Being Conscious Copies
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
Anything Day Gone Know
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Being Charisma Gives Leader
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Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Before Dig Thirsty Well
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

About Connections Future Having
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A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Bully Game Happy He
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Announcement Danger Go Idea
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Abandoned Because Distraction Early
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Aware Being Fear Mark
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Away Competition Find Invent
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Book Bunch Economics Favor
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

Again Building Changed Dying
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Becomes Chooses Drives Get
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There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Academy Award Best Great
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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Anybody Finding Genius Hates
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You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Ahead Always Best Fighter
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Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
Time Big Days Deal
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Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Believe Dealt Death Fear
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I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

People Religious Respectful Suits
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Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Aging Enjoy Fun Lay
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I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Learn New Something Time
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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Age Being Gracefully Important
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The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Pendulum Race Relations Sensitive
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When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Ask Like See Something
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Accurate Around Biography Mind
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You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Always Audiences Characters Effects
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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Appealing Becomes Dating Down
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I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Actor Audiences Become Enjoy
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I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Alone Always Else Everybody
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I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Advantage Along Breaks Came
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I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Always Bad Fall Nice
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Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Harmful Health Lot Mental
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As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Afraid Doubt Older Out
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