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“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end”
Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
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“Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They provided herbal potions, pessaries, and even surgical remedies for women who wished to avoid child-bearing. The bodies of the children were then harvested and sold to cosmetologists in Egypt, who used the collagen for the manufacture of various beauty creams.”
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“There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.”
Source : Source: www.mtv.com
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“These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.”
Source : Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.240, Penguin
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“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.”
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“How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?”
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“I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.”
Source : "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.
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“People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.”