"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."

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Thomas Carlyle

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“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”
“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.”
“Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.”

Source : "'What is an icon?'". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2005.
“Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.”
“Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber
“I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.”

Source : "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.
“Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.”
“I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,”

Source : "Teen dancer Michaela DePrince", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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