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“The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.”
Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 40, 1949 - 1957.
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“I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.”
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“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”
Source : Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”
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“We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.”
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“Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.”
Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
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“It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.”
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“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.”
Source : The Julian marriage laws (nos. 120-123, etc.), www.unrv.com.
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“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”
Source : "Wadah Khanfar: 'Be patient with the Arab World'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.