"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."

-- Euripides

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“I understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people on a panel perceive as being great vocally, I think, isn't necessarily right.”
“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”
“I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Nemo". "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", www.imdb.com. 1954.
“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”

Source : "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.”

Source : Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books
“I don't like plain nails. I get sad.”
“The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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