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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
Roger Ebert
Character
Comedy
Enough
Good
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich
Henry Ward Beecher
World
Take up
Give up
Us rich
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
Henry Ward Beecher
Indolent mind
Empty
Vermin
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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
Romain Gary
Exactly
First
Get
Go
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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Man's duty
Have books
Luxury
Life
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
Rosa Luxemburg
Against
Bourgeois
Capital
Class
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Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many prepare? That is the big difference. A sound value system held water then, holds water today, and will hold water in the future
Herb Brooks
Success
Won
Prepare
That moment
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We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
Herb Brooks
Be dreaming
Kids
Having dreams
Sophisticated
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
Rosa Luxemburg
Believe
Cause
Colour
Deeply
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Act
Classes
Constitution
Constitutional
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You might lack wisdom in areas such as, business, marriage, interpersonal relationships, leadership; work and so forth; but that should not make you feel despondent. Ask God for this wisdom and He will give you generously.
Shepherd Bushiri
Wisdom
God
Forth
Work
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Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
Rosa Luxemburg
Because
Both
Conquest
Contrary
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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.
Ron Chernow
Because
Capital
Characteristics
Cultural
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
Older men
Declare war
Fight
Die
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We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover
Have not
Reached
Goal
God
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.
Ron Chernow
Admit
Almost
Books
Long
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Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.
Ron Chernow
Also
Anything
Criticism
Extremely
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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover
Peace
Council table
Treaties
Men
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert Hoover
Peace
Contributed
Respect ability
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
David Bohm
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Commonly
Parts
Existence
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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.
Herbert Hoover
Peace
Promoted
Limitation
Creation
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
David Bohm
Actually
Controls
Decide
Each
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Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
Roseanne Barr
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Complain
Month
Myself
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert Hoover
Free government
Most difficult
Everlastingly true
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There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr
Being
Hell
Lot
More
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.
Nicky Oppenheimer
Affluent
Africa
Am
Bit
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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.
Herman Melville
Human madness
Cunning
Think
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Herman Melville
Real strength
Never impairs
Beauty
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.
Nicky Oppenheimer
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Hit
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Go out of your way to be kind to ordinary people like gatemen, secretaries and cleaners. They may not have money and power to give you, but they can direct you to where to get money and power. But do it because it is the right thing to do anyway
Demola Aladekomo
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Your way
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
Roland Barthes
Cannot
Even
Literature
Must
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
Herman Melville
Happiness
Deem
World
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I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.
Ronaldinho
Amanda Nunes
Willian Topics About
Anything
Been
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If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
Ronaldinho
Could
Dribble
Five
Goal
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I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.
Ronaldinho
Am
Charm
I Am
Ugly
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan
Elicit
Greatness
Humanity
Leadership
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire Belloc
Dead
Hope
Sins
Were scarlet
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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
Wandered
My life
Traveled
Fulfillment
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From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
Homes
Undiscovered ends
Worth
Love
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
James Cameron
Actor
Actually
Around
Because
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
James Cameron
Any
Director
Filmmaker
Had
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks
Children
Hopefully
Meet
Our
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
James Cameron
Environments
Escapism
Fantasy
Fascinated
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I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
James Cameron
Always
Attempt
Build
Engineering
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
James Cameron
Also
Artist
Electrical
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
Always
Because
Give
Giving
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
James Cameron
Call
Me
Move
Move On
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.
James Cameron
Am
Case
Course
Different
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
Rosanne Cash
Exciting
Find
Gives
Just
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Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.
James Cameron
Any
Context
Conversation
Could
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