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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Call Faith Fools Friends
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty Development Excites Invariably
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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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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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Bartender Her Me Psychiatrist
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Words are but the signs of ideas.

Ideas Signs Words
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Argument Brought Evidently Evil
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According Between Desires Every
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Chocolate Cook Got Made
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Because Great Growth Human
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
First Great Requisite Self-Confidence
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Charms Distant Made
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Between Both Cannot Distance
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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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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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.

Book Greatest Half Library
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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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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Know Only Other Pieces
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Idea Once Only People
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Anything Goes Inside Limited
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decisions Made Show Those
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Avoiding Being Combination Coming
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

About AIDS Anything Bush
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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.

Air Am Call Dates
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Around Days Feeling Ideas
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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

April Believe Day Democrats
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Desk Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Afraid Age Certain Certain Age
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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Success is a great deodorant.

Deodorant Great Success Success Is
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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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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Armed Deadly Frightening Hit
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Any Beyond Feel Form
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

About Am Big Big Enough
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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.

Authority Being Best Carried
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

Achieve Could Delivery Man
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