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#1. Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

George Eliot

#2. The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Herbert Croly

#3. I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.

Rashida Jones

#4. Blaming some deity for your own hate seems pretty messed up to me.

Laurent Linn

#5. Better be generally in love with all than specially with one, I should think ...

Charlotte Bronte

#6. I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#7. It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

George Herbert

#8. In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.

Timothy Olyphant

#9. Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form.

W. H. Auden

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Cassandra Clare

#11. Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Lara St. John

#12. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

#13. Bill Phillips, one of his successors as chairman, captured the spirit in his mantra: "Work hard. Play hard. Sleep fast.

Kenneth Roman

#14. What sells is hope.

Diana Vreeland

#15. The Honda Center is a wonderful arena. And it's a great arena, not only for the NHL, but it would be a great arena for an NBA team.

Henry Samueli

#16. I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Malcolm Wallop