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“The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that of adapting their words and actions to the text of old documents or generally accepted doctrines: they themselves created the documents and brought about the acceptance of their doctrines.”
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“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
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“I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.”
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“Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.”
Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.76, Knopf
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“All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.”
Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395
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“War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.”
Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.15, Vanderbilt University Press
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“Rudy Steiner was scared of the book theif's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have longed for it so much. he must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”
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“Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.”