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“Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.”
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“When adversity hits, go out and learn something.”
Source : "US graduation season 2013: the best commencement speeches" by Ruth Spencer, Kayla Epstein, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2016.
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“Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.”
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“The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.”
Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1806). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.40
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“Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.”
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“I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.”
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“Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.”
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“People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.”
Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics