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“The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.”
Source : Ethel Wilson (1990). “Love and Salt Water”, New Canadian Library
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“Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.”
Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.”
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“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”
Source : E. F. Benson (2015). “MAKE WAY FOR LUCIA - Complete Mapp and Lucia Series (6 Novels & 2 Short Story Collections): Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia, Trouble for Lucia, The Male Impersonator and Desirable Residences”, p.339, e-artnow
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“SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.”
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“I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”
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“The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.”
Source : Peter Ackroyd (2011). “Foundation: The History of England”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
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“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”
Source : Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”
