"If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation."
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"I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America."
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"I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece."
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"My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went."
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"Man is a piece of the universe made alive"
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"Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh."
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"I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece."
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"Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping."
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"How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
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"Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie."
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"Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?"
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"Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed."
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"Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?"
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"The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know."
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"I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward."
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"In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound"
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"I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak."
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"Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life."
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"It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one."
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"Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel."
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