"In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever."
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"He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it."
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit."
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"He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought."
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"A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love."
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"Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die."
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"When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse."
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"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself."
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"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."
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"To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin."
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"Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running."
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"But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist."
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"Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy."
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"In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is."
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"When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring."
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"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything."
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"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."
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"Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being."
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"The best servant does his work unseen."
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