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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."
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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
Now
"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
Life
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
Movies
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
Opportunity
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
Power
"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."
Art
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
Optimism
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
World
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
Photography
"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
Art
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