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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Hope Knowing Love Only
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Interest Judgments Matter Only
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Power Life Facts Present
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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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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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honor Long Prevails
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
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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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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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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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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Even Fondness Kindness Our
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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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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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Alimony Call Changed Divorce
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

Bad Bomb Feel Make
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Make Money Movie Sometimes
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Cathartic Comedy Deal Personal
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

Action Action Movie Actor Aggressive
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

About Am Article Bad
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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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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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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Dread Early Essential Find
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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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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Before Character Done Either
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I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

About Becomes Chris Dead
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I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

Amazing Around Believe Even
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Actor Character Character Actor Leading
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