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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
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It's these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They're sedentary guys. It's ironic that you're getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.
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It's tough to perform every week and do it well. Most people don't know how hard that is.
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It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
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Joy in looking and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
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Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
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