"Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought."

-- William James

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“Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.”
“I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.”
“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”
“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.”
“Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”
“I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word "feminist" has a weird connotation.”
“To understand is to forgive.”

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