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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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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.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Compared Consider Done He
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acquaintances Advances Alone Constant
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Attacked Being Controlled Girl
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One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Asked Birth Birth Control Boy
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Misconception A Stupidity Talent
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Bent Come Content Dreams
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Call Faith Fools Friends
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Around Barriers Constraints Erect
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ability Absence Conflict Handle
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
First Great Requisite Self-Confidence
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Food Art Consumed Dish
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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.

Choice Life Accept Action
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Converse Desire He Man
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Always Been Concentrated Enemy
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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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.

Could Economy Few Government
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Any Change City Claim
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Anyway Basic Chance Changes
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Belt Direction Hollywood Just
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Any Civil Civil Rights Continue
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Any Change Economic Forces Face
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Battle Been Bros Butt
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I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

Bubble Complete Control Desperately
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

Anything Anything And Everything Away Been
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Basic Confident Excellence Fitness
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Physical Begin Continue Mental
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Choice Controlling Equality Essential
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Feel Hard I Feel Living
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Autonomy Controlling Denying Equality
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