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“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
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“Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.”
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“Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.”
Source : Michael E. Mann (2013). “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines”, p.38, Columbia University Press
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“Free trade should not mean free labor.”
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“I have had players who are good, and who know they are good; I have had players who are bad and know they are bad; I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good; I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.”
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“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
Source : "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.
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“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
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“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”
Source : Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor
