"Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all."

-- Jacques Charles

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“In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.”
“The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.”
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
“A humble person never stops learning.”
“I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.”

Source : "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.
“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?”
“What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.”

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