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“From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.”
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“I am completely serious. When I decide to do something, I decide to really do it.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
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“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Source : Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004
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“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.”
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“The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.”
Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
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“My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.”
Source : "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003. 
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“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
