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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Advance Brought Equality Ever
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Advance Given Great GreatShow
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Advantage Desire Expense Fellow
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Advance Big Changes Give
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Major Communication Interact Century
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The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

Done Ever Experience Face
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leader Effective Manipulative Figure
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Achievement Advancement Fertile Grows
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Strife Vanquished Dead
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Yield Misfortunes Boldly Permit
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Advantage Danger Fear Fears
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Advantage Important ImportantThing Know
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The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

Almighty Cause Come God
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Advances Degraded Humanity More
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A man’s greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

Man Enemy Vanquished Village
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Absolute Almost Art Axiom
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Behind Discover Example
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To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Live Vanity Speak Well
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Basis Calls Come Conscience
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As servants, our responsibility is to act in our people's best interest.

Servants Best interest Responsibility Act
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Able Acting Actually Creative
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

Against Beach Come Crash
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

Progress Human Pull Push
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Goal Education Advancement Knowledge
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Sorry Point Life Extinct
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Grievance Fit Object Law
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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

People Cops World Better
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Advance Boy Critical Develops
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Advantage Cannot Hope We Cannot
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Test Servant Duty Relative
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Everything for this life na vanity. No body go shine forever.

Shine forever Life Everything Vanity
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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
Am Believe Favor Genes
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When you don’t get as much attention, reinventing and evolving can be a strain but one most to stay relevant. Getting there isn’t as hard as staying there

Attention Reinventing Evolving Strain
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Made Plenty Mistakes Never
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Life Respect Excellent Terrible
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Good Rule Apologize Sort
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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

Dislike Air Grievances Wish
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Mind Advance Foresee Own
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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

World Ruled Consideration Advantages
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Merely Enemy Rise Reconciled
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Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Great Advantage Knowledge Adversary
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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Nature Lines Luminous Masses
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