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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different. Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me. I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features. Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice. There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't. All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. Did you know that the word "tsunami," which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946. I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive. In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. I was a geek in high school. I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot. And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave? We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

- Chanakya


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  1. A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does,...
  2. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
  3. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest...
  4. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so...
  5. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to...
  6. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
  7. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I...
  8. Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
  9. Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the...
  10. Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it...
  11. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere....
  12. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
  13. God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your...
  14. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow,...
  15. He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who...
  16. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame,...
  17. It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss...
  18. Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such...
  19. O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water...
  20. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't...
  21. One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession...
  22. Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are...
  23. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a...
  24. The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will...
  25. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that...
  26. The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the...
  27. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual...
  28. The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither...
  29. The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man...
  30. The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog...
  31. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his...
  32. The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
  33. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal...
  34. There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the...
  35. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship...
  36. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five...
  37. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future;...
  38. Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company...

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Chānakya was an adviser and prime minister to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta , and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names by which the ancient Indian political treatise called the Arthaśāstra identifies its author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya. Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science. In the Western world, he has been referred to as The Indian Machiavelli, although Chanakya's works predate Machiavelli's by about 1,800 years. Chanakya was a teacher in Takṣaśila, an ancient centre of learning, and was responsible for the creation of Mauryan empire, the first of its kind on the Indian subcontinent. His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915.
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