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“By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.”
Source : Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)
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“There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.”
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“The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.”
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“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”
Source : "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.
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“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
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“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
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“Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.”
Source : "Alessandra Ambrosio's Stay-Healthy Secrets" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. May 19, 2014.
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“Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.”