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The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
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The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
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The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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