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“The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.”
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“The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!”
Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107
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“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”
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“I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.”
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“For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.”
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“Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.”
Source : C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.32, Penguin
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“External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.”
Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
