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“There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.”
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“Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.”
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“I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”
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“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
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“I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.”
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“There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.”
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“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.”
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“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.”
Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.262, Routledge
