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“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”

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If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

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The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people…

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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.…

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“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard…

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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the…

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I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

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For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him…

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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

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Anger is an emotion, not a compass.

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I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone…

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There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use…

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People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may…

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I have an excellent internal compass.

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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out…

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