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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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