"There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery."

-- Richard Steele

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“There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”
“Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.”

Source : "Once we believed in intervention. Now, to our shame, we turn away" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2006.
“For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.”
“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

Source : Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)
“Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to”
“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.”

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