The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. - George Stillman Hillard

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You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

George Stillman Hillard

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

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There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

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The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.

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Steven Soderbergh

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

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You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

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I'm very much open to the possibilities.

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