"Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men."
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"Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?"
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"Color is only beautiful when it means something."
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"'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location."
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"Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live."
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"In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes."
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"The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity."
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"True humility means giving joy to others."
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"Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered."
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"One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills."
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"Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't"."
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"The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves."
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"As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked on these issues in the developing world because that's where the risk to girl's safety and access to education is the highest. But that doesn't mean that we don't have issues in the U.S. or western countries. For me, I focused on the developing world because it felt like the issue was more urgent there."
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"Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better."
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"Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you."
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"TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself."
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"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."
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"In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die."
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"If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing."
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"I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is."
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