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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
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"The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?"

Serious Privilege Savages
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Arlo Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
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"Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'"

Song Said Serious
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes."

Political Taken Serious
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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid."

Kids Serious Ambitious
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling."

Belief Serious Phrases
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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

Writing Serious Owl
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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

War Politics Serious
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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty."

Simple Justice Serious
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"If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back."

Serious Height Dizzy
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects."

Eye Personality Serious
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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
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"I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that.""

Play Kids Serious
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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
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"[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it."

Simple Serious Crafts
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Allen West Politician
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"When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going."

Years Country Serious
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