"When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive."
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"She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress"
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"It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns."
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"But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience."
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"Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers."
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"Society does not love its unmaskers."
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"The life of labor does not make men, but drudges."
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"It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in."
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"All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal."
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"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done."
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"Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience."
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"The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest."
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"If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed."
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"Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate."
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"We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things."
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"A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out."
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"Necessity does everything well."
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"When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him."
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"Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns."
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"The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from."
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