"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."

-- Edmond de Goncourt

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“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”

Source : "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.
“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
“This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.”
“Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”
“Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.”
“Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.243, Penguin
“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.”
“You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.307

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