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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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Necessity has no law.
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No gentleman can be a philosopher an no philosopher a gentleman: to the philosopher everything is fluid - even himself.
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No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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