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“A great doctor kills more people than a great general.”
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“Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!”
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“In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”
Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber
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“I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.”
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“What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? Â How can you create something people want?”
Source : Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.14, Pearson UK
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“Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.”
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“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
Source : Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press
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“I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.”