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“Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.”
Source : Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.88, Random House
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“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
Source : John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis
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“I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.”
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“After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived”
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“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”
Source : Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”
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“The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.”
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“There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.”
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“The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.”
Source : Robert A. Johnson (1984). “The Psychology of Romantic Love”
