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  • Ang Lee So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arthur Cayley So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bill Janklow So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Cornelius Nepos So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
    Cornelius Nepos
    Roman writer (110 - 25)
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  • Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Cornwell So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carrie Fisher So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bill Watterson So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Brit Morin Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I didn't join a sorority because I knew I couldn't make a long-term commitment. I was constantly traveling back and forth from Silicon Valley to Austin for internships. It was hard, but it was worth it for where I wanted to go.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Adams Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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