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“When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.”
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“War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.”
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“I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”
Source : Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
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“Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.”
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“The real pleasure,the real peace, Â the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.”
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“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
Source : "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008. 
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“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.”
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“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.”
Source : Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.859, Booklassic
