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“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
Source : Thomas Young (2003). “Thomas Young's Life and Works: Life of Thomas Young”
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“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”
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“I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.”
Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
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“Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.”
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“It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.”
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“What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.”
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“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
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“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”
Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.361
