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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 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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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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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

About Any Anything Day
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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.

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.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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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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Marriage is a great institution.

Great A Institution Marriage
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Success is a great deodorant.

Deodorant Great Success Success Is
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Create Entertainment Eyes Interest
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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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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Absolutely After Country Danger
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Acknowledged Freedom God Law
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Abuse America Everything Forget
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Album Ever Experience Happened
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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Life for me is about movement.

About Life Me Movement
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Change Enemies Motivator Nice
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Ambition Dream Engine A
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I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Am Approach Best Deeply
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I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

Against Almost Berlin Beyond
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Because Jewelry Me Pain
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Against Always Anything Audience
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Always Anything Approach Brings
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Does Grieve He Man
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Accuse Begun Complete Education
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Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Captures Explanation Feminism Free
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Drunk Drunkard Glasses He
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An exam is a test of memory, not a test of intelligence. You‘re not dumb because you didn’t pass an exam. That you failed does not mean you wont win in life

Intelligence Exam Memory Win
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Failure Greater His House
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Escape Eyes Only Others
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Always Cheating Feeling He
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Form A Self-Sacrifice Dissipation
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Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

Actually Always Loved Really
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Avarice is a deadly sin.

Avarice Deadly Sin
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Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation

Always Apart Blown He
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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Bond Dog Earth Ever
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

Aggressive Believe Civilized Day
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Father Goods He His
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Children City Family Flat
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Pretend Have That Your
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I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

Mean College Thinking
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Important Acting Actors
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Art Call Could Dying
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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Desire Grows Invisible Objects
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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Beloved Created Creative Earthly
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Always Autumn Beyond Condition
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