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“Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.”
Source : Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”
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“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire”
Source : Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1901). “Burne-Jones”
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“Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.”
Source : "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.
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“It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.”
Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.380, Random House
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“The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.”
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“God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.”
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“I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.”
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“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”
Source : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”