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For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.
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There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.
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Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley
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A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.
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In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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When I was young, my father told me I was living in a dream world. At the time, he was trying to straighten me up to fly right. Now I treasure the part of my life that is a dream world - the love of my children, my music - these loves can put you in a dreamy place. I embrace it.
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
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When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.
