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“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
Source : Henri Murger (1899). “Bohemian Life”
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“When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.”
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“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”
Source : Steven Runciman (1951). “A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, p.13, CUP Archive
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“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.”
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“I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.”
Source : "R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1". Interview with Ted Widmer, www.theparisreview.org. 2010. 
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“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.”
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“The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.”
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“Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.”
