"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"
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"So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways."
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"The reaper does not listen to the harvest."
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"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics."
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"He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage."
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"The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time."
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"Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it."
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"Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted."
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"A thought once awakened does not again slumber."
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"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
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"You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does."
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"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."
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"I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest."
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"I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you."
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"Truth provokes those whom it does not convert."
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"You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?"
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"Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable."
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"My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'"
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"To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind."
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