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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
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The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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