"a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics."

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Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

Maria Edgeworth

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“Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence.”
“It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.”
“You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.”

Source : Interview with Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 8, 2014.
“Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1997). “The Complete Fairy Tales”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions
“It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.”

Source : Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.207, Rowman Altamira
“I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.”
“It's never the right time to take a particular stand.”
“America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”

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