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    A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

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    Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

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    Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

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    Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

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    Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

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    Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

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    Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

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    He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

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    Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

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    Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

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    How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

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    I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

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    I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

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    It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

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    I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

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    It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

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    Life is extremely complicated.

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    Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

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    Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

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    ...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

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    Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

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    The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

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    The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

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    The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

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    Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

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    Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

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    You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

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    You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

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    A corruption of intentions.

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    Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

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    he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.

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    I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]

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    I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

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    Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

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    It’s an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn’t change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn’t a day that we don’t worry about those men who have survived the White House.

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    Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

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    Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ― with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

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    She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

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    Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

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    The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

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    There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.

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    Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

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    When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

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    You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.