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“There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.”
Source : Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”
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“Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes”
Source : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)
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“Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.”
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“I make a good living doing what I do.”
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“The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.”
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“No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.”
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“Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.”
Source : "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.
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“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”
