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“In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.”
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“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.”
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“We are all pioneers in the Age of Aquarius. No man can give a man anything other than love. No man can give a man anything other than hope. No man can give a man anything but service. The only thing you can do is act like a forklift-go into the dirt and lift the other person and put him on track, so he can proceed.”
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“He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.”
Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214
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“I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.”
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“Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.”
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“I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.”
Source : "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010. 
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“Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.”
Source : Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books
