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“I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
Source : Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.73, Lu Xun
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“I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.”
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“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
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“I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.”
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“With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.”
Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”
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“When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.”
Source : "Rising star reserves right to mingle on kids' level - Bert McCracken appears with the Used at X-Fest". Interview with David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, August 6, 2004.
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“In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.”
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“You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.”
