"To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other."

-- Olaf Stapledon

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“We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.”
“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”
“No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.”
“I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.”
“The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.”
“My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health”

Source : Kyffin Williams (1973). “Across the straits: an autobiography”, Gerald Duckworth & Company
“It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.”
“The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.”

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