Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

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I did have a sense of parental pride in that character. For 20 years now my films and the TV show have been the only version of Peter Parker. So I wanted this new version, for a new generation, to be really good. I still care about it. - Nicholas Hammond

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -- Ronald Reagan

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

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I will go down as the voice of this generation; I will be the loudest voice of this decade. -- Kanye West

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The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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