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“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.”
Source : "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.
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“No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.”
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“I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.”
Source : "Geek Cheek". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
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“Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.”
Source : Recalled on his death, 20 Apr1982.
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“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”
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“If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.”
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“She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.”