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“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)”
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“The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.207
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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
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“I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.”
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“Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.”
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“One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.”
Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra
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“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”
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“You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.”
Source : "Viva Bianca: ‘Spartacus: Vengeance’ Princess On Ilithyia, Lucy Lawless And Sex Scenes". Interview with Chris Jancelewicz, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.