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"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."
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"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."

"That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary."

"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."

"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

"I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable."

"Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way."

"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."
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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."

"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."
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