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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
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Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
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Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor – unassisted.
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Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
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