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“I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.”
Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.52, A&C Black
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“We all need to begin thinking out of the box.”
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“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
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“You can't have oil without oil spills.”
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“I can get pissed off very easily.”
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“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?”
Source : Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin
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“The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”
Source : Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83
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“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”
Source : Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”
