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“Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.”
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“Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.”
Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.”
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“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.”
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“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”
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“Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.”
Source : "Medici Seal". Book by Theresa Breslin, August 3, 2006.
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“Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.”
Source : "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011. 
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“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
