"When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything."
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"Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive."
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"The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic."
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"Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?"
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"My, my. A body does get around."
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"I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you."
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"Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?"
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"Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart."
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"a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries"
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"There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere."
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"The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else."
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"Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism."
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"A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original."
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"The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly."
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"Nature does require her times of preservation."
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"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
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"No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest."
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"If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them."
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"It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest."
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"I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever."
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