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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
Source: American Pastoral (1997) -
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
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