"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

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Charles Dickens

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“The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.”
“Foley looks like an un-made bed.”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”

Source : "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.
“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.”
“I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.”
“Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.”

Source : Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.56, Random House
“Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.”
“The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--”

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