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“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
Source : Alexandre Dumas (2016). “My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria
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“The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.”
Source : "Fiat's John Elkann Shares Family Business Views". FBNenews, December 15, 2010.
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“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”
Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.296, Bantam
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“I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.”
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“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.”
Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.
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“Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.”
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“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”
Source : Letter to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on May 14, 1826. "Calculus Gems". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
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“We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.”