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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Diamond Different Likes Maximum
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At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Length Fell asleep Volume Sound
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Elicit Greatness Humanity Leadership
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Control Production Wealth Human life
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
About Everything Inhuman Know
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Accuse Acting Being Causing
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Boundless Compared Human Human Imagination
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When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

About Dumped Egg Elections
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The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

About Backwards Ever Forward
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

American American Politics Business Debating
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.

Anything Away Because Camera
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Best Do things Systematically Human
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event

Hateful grief Human Have knowledge Truth
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I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

Discourse equally Human happiness Continues long
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Many exceedingly Rich men Unhappy
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

God Suffer presumption Anyone
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Most hateful Human misfortune Wise man Influence
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It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Impossible Someone Human
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Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Love Human beings Yourself
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Adversity Effect Eliciting talents Lain dominant
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Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.

Humour Stronger Effect Sharpness
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Also Conception Contrast Could
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The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Advances After Also Appropriate
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I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

Billion Career Double Encompass
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

Actions Assuming Bad Dictate
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

Actually Be True Blame Born
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

Accept Discrimination Evolution Exists
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Impossible Enslave Mentally Human freedom
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
Factor Get Reading Than
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Bit Developed Fine Little
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Acting Aspects Because Both
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Director Filmmaking Medium View
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Able Animals Being Better
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

Animals Could Dump People
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I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

Actual Bring Cinema Even
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Abhorrent Being Church Heresy
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Against Become Danger Defense
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Government Greatest Human Human Nature
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