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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."
Battle

"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."
Knowledge

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
Action

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
Trouble

"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."
Work

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
Death

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
Hope

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."
Nature

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
Care

"Do everything as in the eye of another."
Behavior
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