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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.
Aaron Sorkin
Different
Manner
Might
Much
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
Aaron Sorkin
Alike
Almost
Almost Nothing
Arc
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
Aaron Sorkin
Drama
I Think
Life
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Robert F. Kennedy
Does
Ends
Free
Life
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Classmates
Each
Gave
Law
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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
Emma Watson
Abnormal
Because
Biggest
Constantly
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
AbAbsolute Power
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Saint Patrick
Apostles
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Believes
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I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
Kinky Friedman
Just
Want
Texas
Be
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman
Another
Appropriate
Discipline
Inventions
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
Age
Equal
Hesitation
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Human rights na my property So therefore, you can't dash me my property.
Fela Kuti
Human right
Dash
Property
My
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.
Muhammadu Buhari
Means
Resources
Weapons
Beat
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
Race
Class
Money
Distinctions
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Taste
Irritating
Direct
Friends
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard
Appreciate
Follow
Make
People
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Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.
Chuck Norris
Being
Between
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
End
Government
Other
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
Every
Every Man
Himself
His
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke
Injustice
Property
Where
There
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Enter
Men
Preservation
Property
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington
Away
Challenged
Change
Just
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke
Any
Assurance
Built
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Keith Miller
Back
Bible
Get
Giving
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth II
Lot
Properly
Trained
Training
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
Khaled Hosseini
Difficulty
Directly
First
How
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
George Carlin
Atheism
Organization
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
Among
Death
His
Honor
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
Also
Attribute
Feelings
Guide
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
Xavier Dolan
Hipsterism
Codes
Social
Originality
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
Isabel Allende
Women
Education
Work
Income
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Wallace Stevens
American
Literature
British
Source
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone
Control
Direct
Emotions
Properly
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
Any
Become
Country
Demand
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
Animals
Another
Barter
Common
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.
Jacob Zuma
Constitution
Constitutional
Deal
Democracy
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.
Jacob Zuma
Appropriate
Avail
Be Prepared
Constitution
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
Adam Savage
About
Forum
Frequent
Group
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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther
Music
The
Art
Prophets
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
Forms
Opinion
Support
Public
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
About
Any
Art
Beyond
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
Fear
Bred
Arms
Geared
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Human
Process
First
Wisdom
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
Fighting
Hatred
Invariably
Lies
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
In
All
Our
Deeds
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Any
Anything
Even
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
J. D. Salinger
Act
Been
Closet
Coat
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
H. P. Lovecraft
Accomplishment
Concluded
Discrimination
Elegant
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
Any
Communism
Largely
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Unfortunately
Regretted
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Temper
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