"Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend."
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"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."
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"The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it."
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"The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything."
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"It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used."
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"Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean."
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"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."
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"Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name."
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"... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
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"Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction."
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"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair."
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"Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon."
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"Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries."
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"It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate."
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"Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God."
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"My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning."
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"You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using."
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"The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see."
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"No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light."
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