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“Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.”
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“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”
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“I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.”
Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012. 
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“People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.”
Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
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“Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.”
Source : "Olympia Snowe: Why I’m Leaving The Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.
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“Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.”
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“A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.”
Source : Isabella Beeton (2000). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition”, p.101, OUP Oxford
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“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
