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    "Everyone's Different"

    "What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself." - Thomas Sprat
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    "Hypocrite!"

    With all due respect, your Honor.
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    "You're stupid, you cretin!"

    "We intend to prove that this man. OJ Simpson, is not guilty of the murders..."
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    "We are going to lie between our teeth."

    "You Can Lead a Whore to Culture, But You Can't Make Her Think" - Dorothy Parker
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    "Oh, so you think you can change her?"

    "it is better to light a single candle than to sit and curse the dark" - Confucius
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    "Could someone get the lights, please?"

    "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." -- Beaumarchais
    You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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    " You don't have a ****ing clue!"

    “The personality of the offense, that's still to be determined,” - Jeff Faine
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    "We ain't found the loophole yet."

    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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    Translation: "I'm a fanatical fool."

    Joys impregnate, sorrows bring forth. -- Blake
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    "Easier in than out."

    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”- Oscar Wilde
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    "I am a cynic, baby!"

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    Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance." - Shirley Booth
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    "Actors ain't so important as they act!"

    "It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes." — A. Favre
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    "anyone awake out there, or do I have to continue this game by myself!" Sorry,

    Do. Or do not. There is no try.

    What we have here is a breakdown in communication - Cool Hand Luke
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    OK then

    "I just can't make you see it my way!"


    "Not poppy nor mandragora

    Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,

    Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

    Which thou owedst yesterday."
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    "Stop worrying about the past."

    "In the State of Denmark there is the odor of decay." - Prince Corwin, Chronicles of Amber
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