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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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Arthur Asher Miller
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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
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I speak my own sins I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
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