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The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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