Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

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Edmund Burke

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

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Gary Oldman

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

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John Lennon

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

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Stan Lee

I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, "How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?"

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