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Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
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Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
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House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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How much easier is it to be generous than just.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
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