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“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
Source : Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”
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“I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office...”
Source : "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.
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“At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.”
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“All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.”
Source : Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK
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“This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.”
Source : Letter to Cobden on December 30, 1853. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 230, 1913.
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“Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.”
Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”
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“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.”
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“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.”