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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.


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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.


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Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.


Katori Hall
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Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
Judy Davis
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.


Walter Lippmann
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.


Thomas Browne
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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.


Matthew Macfadyen
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Law is a bottomless pit.


John Arbuthnot
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
Donald Barthelme
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
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Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.


Luther Allison
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.


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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.


Frederick Douglass
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I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.
Chris Crutcher
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.


Benjamin Franklin
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
Candice Olson
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