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“I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma”
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“Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.”
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“The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.”
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“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
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“I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.”
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“This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.”
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“When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”
Source : Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
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“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.827, Bloomsbury Publishing
