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“It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.”
Source : Charlotte Lennox (2009). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.348, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.”
Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub
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“I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When we use the spiritual Meronian language, the word 'international' doesn't do justice to our band. This kind of psychic language's means of communication can reach galaxies beyond our planet, not to mention the other living and inanimate entities of our own planet.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.”
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“I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.”
Source : "I really don't think I'm cool" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2008.
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“In a free society, the 'vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a 'visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people.”
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“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”
Source : Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42