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“For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago...”
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“England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.”
Source : Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”
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“Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.”
Source : "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.
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“Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...”
Source : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.74, DoctorZed Publishing
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“People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.”
Source : Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.”
Source : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2007). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.220, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Without the ice, the earth will fall”