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“I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.”
Source : "Jeff Buckley's record collection gets an interactive website" by Caroline Siede, www.avclub.com. July 19, 2016.
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“The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.”
Source : Of the Laws of Chance Preface
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“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”
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“Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.”
Source : "Sir Ken Adam on Designing James Bond Sets and Working With Kubrick". Interview with Steve Karras, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.
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“He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway”
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“I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.”
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“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”
Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
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“The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.”