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“A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.”
Source : "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.
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“You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw.”
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“I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.”
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“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”
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“There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.”
Source : "Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006. 
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“I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.”
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“I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?”
