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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
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The separation between the two cultures has been getting deeper under our eyes; there is now precious little communication between them.... The traditional culture... is, of course, mainly literary... the scientific culture is expansive, not restrictive.
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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
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The shy man usually finds that he has been shy without a cause, and that, in practice, no one takes the slightest notice of him.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
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