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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

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We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.

-- Robert Jackson

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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

-- Ann Patchett

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I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

-- Ryan Gosling

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love of virtue is only an imagination, a kind of perversion of desire effected by society's (i.e., others') demands on us.

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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

-- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

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Art is science made clear.

-- Jean Cocteau

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The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

-- James Arthur Baldwin

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The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...

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