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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Conscience Mental action Sentimental reaction
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Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

Blow Doctrine Experiment Generation
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If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Actually Age Being Believe
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But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Also Created Doubt Great
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I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Like Mine Nostalgia Unless
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

Am Genuinely Guy I Think
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

About Also Audience Harder
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

100Years About Expose Film
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Capitalists Employed Labor Machines
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Always Art Confession Everywhere
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Capital Compulsion Health Laborer
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Antidote Mental Only Pain
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If we are unable to tap into the talent that is locked within us… We will not be able to deal with many of the issues that the world is facing.

Unable Talent Within us Issues
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Bookcase Lovely Please Throw
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Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

About Always Bad Bunch
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There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Adopted Because Been Being
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Before marriage Declares His life
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

People Loves Likes Talk to
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Buddha Comfortably Computer Cycle
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Appreciative Because Had No Talent
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Been Divorce Eyes Failure
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Facts Things Totality World
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Body Doctrine Logic Transcendental
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If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

Be Nice Being Better Day
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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You need to consider the future and think “what might my life look like if I were doing the right things incrementally everyday?”

Need Consider Future Life
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Masculinity is not fragile. Masculinity is not toxic. It’s not fundamentally pillaging. It’s not fundamentally rape culture and exploitation. I like the masculine spirit. It is necessary. Dear men & boys, may we continue to show up in excellence and be our best selves.

Masculinity Fragile Fundamentally pillaging
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Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

Absolutely Know Mental Perhaps
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I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Always Been Boundaries Correct
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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Capitalism Condemned Had Should
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

About Besides Conservative Constitution
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Bank Capitalism Central CentralBank
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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Always Been Boy Cousins
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That dream in you; that great idea, that great vision, the talent buried within you - implement this year. Don’t be afraid to take that leap of faith. Fear hinders your reaching your maximum potential. This year, go for your dream, implement your idea and let that talent manifest in Jesus name

Dream Great vision Talent Afraid
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Happiness Harmony Mental Unhappiness
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Allowed Channels Easy Energy
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Advance Blood Democracy Flesh
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You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone.

Don't have Talent Win Alone
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