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“Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.”
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“So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.”
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“Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.”
Source : Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.84, New World Library
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“You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.”
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“The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.”
Source : Gerald James Holton (1998). “The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction”, p.250, Harvard University Press
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“Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart, To lull the wayward soul to rest, When hopes and fears distract the breast; Reason may calm this doubtful strife, And steer thy bark through various life.”
Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1812). “The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.77
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“Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?”
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“As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.”
Source : Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”