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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. ↗

— Sai Baba

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. ↗

— Malcolm X

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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