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“Heresy makes for progress.”
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“By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.”
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“As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!”
Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK
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“Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.”
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“They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.”
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“Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.”
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“Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.”
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“I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.”
Source : "'Drop Dead Diva' Finale: Brooke Elliott on the Series Ending and What She'll Miss About Jane (Q&A)". Interview with Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 20, 2014. 
