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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Assertion Beauty Flowers Proud
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wise Man Restrain Sense
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Any Aware Brought Hundred
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

Clearly Even Old Person
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

Against Also Away Best
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

Adamant Father Follow Footsteps
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When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
Am Believe Favor Genes
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Body Even Girl Had
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Behind Body Common Experience
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

About Artist Beyond Excess
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Happiness Ability Recognize
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

About Curtain Draw Essay
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Anonymity Completeness Like Often
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Owing Mute Give Qualities
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Amount Freedom Hungry Masses
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
Value Quality Love Determined
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Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Better Better Place Just Make
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Conviction Devotion Excellent Other
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Best Solitary Sometimes Voice
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I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Dramatic Grew Listening Little
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Back Been Boss Brat
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Imagination Takes Love Humility
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An illiterate is not one who hasn't been to school before but people who lack maturity in a particular field of life.

Illiterate School Maturity Life
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Wisdom Beginning Recognize Best
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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done Except Little Nothing
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Hope Always Ahead Possibility
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Have Little Value Quaintly
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What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.

Pain.strength Flowed Soaked Bones
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Politics Government Important Practical
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Literature One Most Interesting
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There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Surer Foundation Beautiful Friendship
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Peculiarly Age May Search
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“Neutrality is the greatest resting place for perception, it is the hammock of the being. This is the most wonderful thing when your own senses become so empty of the ‘You’ that you begin to see the harmony of existence and feel it within your own self.”

Feel Neutrality Greatest Resting
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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Acts Because Efficient God
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability Falls Hits Mark
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The beauty of an artwork is closely linked to its ability to stimulate emotions within us.

Beauty Ability Stimulate Emotions
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Create Flames Happy Inner
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“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”

Everybody Today Terrible Anxious
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“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”

Little Pencil Writing God
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If you want to give them hot hot, do it with your success, not your revenge. To pepper them, do it with your upward mobility, not by flaunting things you buy, but can’t really afford. Even the best revenge can’t hurt your haters like your success!

Success Revenge Pepper them Haters
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

Man Sell You Imagine
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Woman Chase Little Love
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Little Trouble World Love
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Instead Loving Enemies Treat
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Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

Cartoonist CGI Different Done
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Argued Being Case Even
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