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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

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And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day. ↗

— Scott Caan

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I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early. ↗

— Scott Caan

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In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. ↗

— Scott Caan

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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. ↗