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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

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The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. ↗

— John Grierson

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Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. ↗

— Andy Grove

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Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities. ↗

— Justin Guarini

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It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me. ↗

— Judith Guest

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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