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“In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”
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“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”
Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228
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“Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.”
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“Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.”
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“The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.”
Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.”
Source : In 'Guardian' 28 December 1990, p. 27
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“The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.”
Source : "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.
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“The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.”