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“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
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“I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.”
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“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”
Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press
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“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”
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“To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.”
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“I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.”
Source : 'An Interlude'
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“You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.”
Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.32, Crown Business
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“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.”
Source : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”
