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“I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.”
Source : Cole Younger (2014). “The Story of Cole Younger”, p.19, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”
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“Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.”
Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
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“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
Source : Agha Shahid Ali (2009). “The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.”
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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.”
Source : Norman Douglas (1955). “A Selection from His Works”
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“I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.”
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“Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
