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“Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.”
Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
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“I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than mere concepts in a gallery or photographic documentation, or any of the paraphernalia that can be used to indicate that. The art was on the land.”
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“The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.”
Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.476
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“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”
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“In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.”
Source : "The Dangerous Book for Boys". Book by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, June 2006.
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“A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.”
Source : "A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything". Rediff On The Net Interview, www.rediff.com. 1997.
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“The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”