"This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions."

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Source : John Chadwick (2014). “The Decipherment of Linear B”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

John Chadwick

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“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”
“I hear a lot of, "We want to make a movie with you." Then "No, we don't want to make this one. We want to make that other movie with you." I don't really get that and it's very frustrating. It angers me. Because my movies are my movies.”
“Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.”
“It doesn't matter because I want to be that guy who you never know what I'm going to wear.”
“Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.”
“It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.”
“Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.”
“I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.”

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