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“All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.”
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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Source : Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”
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“Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love”
Source : Song: Beware, 2013
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“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”
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“We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.”
Source : "Robots, Men and Minds". Book by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, p. 57, 1967.
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“I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.”
Source : "Dull epitaphs: R.I.P" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2007.
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“The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.”
Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 11), 1994.
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“I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.