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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. - James Dean

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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
―John Maynard Keynes

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: "Christianity and human relations in industry" (1951) by Sir George Schuster, p. 109

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“Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.”
―T. S. Eliot

Source/Notes:
The Cocktail Party (1949)

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“Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.”
―Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes:
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter I

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“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
―Henry Ward Beecher

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“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
―Epictetus

Source/Notes:
Discourses, Book I, ch. 24

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James Dean

Born: February 8, 1931

Died: September 30, 1955 (aged 24)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Bio: James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden, and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant.