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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
I can resist anything but temptation.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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