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"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
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"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."
"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."
"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."
"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."
"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."
"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."
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