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“The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.”
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“The mountains were there and so was I.”
Source : 1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).
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“Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.”
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“All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.”
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“New gods arise when they are needed.”
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“Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.”
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“We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to ***** the public's advancement.”
Source : Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Elder Statesman, January 1, 1844-June 29, 1852”, p.553, University Press of Kentucky
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“Poetry is fact given over to imagery.”