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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Spectacle Agent Simply Also
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Victims Women Advances Become
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Any Because Courage Greatest
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Even Fondness Kindness Our
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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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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
Between Does Easier Honor
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

Animators Bad Bad Way Cash
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Ability Acting Another Character
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Bird Dance How Learn
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Any Else Love Makes
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Nothing recedes like progress.

Like Nothing Progress Recedes
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Apply Between Cannot Difference
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Everything Genius Saying Should
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Afraid Brave Coward Either
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Absolutely Bold Criticism Foe
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Intelligence Madness Science Sublimity
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Anything Forget Make Note
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Another Came Cement Felt
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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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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Men Mind Result Impresses
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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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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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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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Away Because Forgive Haste
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Different Manner Might Much
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Entertainment First Foremost Good
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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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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Friends Nothin Seen You
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I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Adventurous Afraid Behind Doors
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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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It's not the having, it's the getting.

Getting Having Not Mindset
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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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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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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