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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.


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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.



I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.



Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.



The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



Vice is its own reward.

Vice is its own reward.



Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.



No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.





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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.



Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.



For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.



They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.



The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.



Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.



Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

Resolutions require only words. Results take action.



It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.




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