"And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.”
“This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.”
“Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17
“Harness the power of peers.”
“You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.”
“It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation
“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.18, Penguin

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