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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

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• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

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• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

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• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

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• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

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• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

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• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

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• I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

  

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• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

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• My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

  

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• Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

  

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• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

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• I love the Beatles.

  

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• The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

  

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• It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.

  

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• Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically, you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

  

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• Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

  

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• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

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• The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  

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• My father had hands like a giant. As a child I had small slender fingers, and it was my ambition to develop hands like my father’s. Artists have lately expressed the wish to paint my hands, so somewhere along the way I must have achieved my wish.

  

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• Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

  

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