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“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.”
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“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”
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“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”
Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.237, Canongate Books
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“First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.”
Source : "Franco-Asian exotica on Singapore skyline". Interview with Daniel Magnowski, www.reuters.com. August 23, 2011.
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“It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.”
Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.3
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“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”
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“The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.”
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“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”