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“My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!”
Source : Samuel Lover, James Jeffrey Roche (1903). “The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche”
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“I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.”
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“Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.”
Source : "Rip's Entertainment!". Interview with Paisley Yankolovich, www.emol.org.
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“Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.”
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“There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination and emotions. But when you get older, you're encouraged to dance around your feelings and disengage, and I think it's crucial to fight that.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”
Source : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
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“The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!”