"Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!"

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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“For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.”

Source : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”
“I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.”

Source : "Fictional character: Anthony Hopkins". "Meet Joe Black", www.imdb.com. 1998.
“Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.”
“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.46, Pan Macmillan
“I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.”
“I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.”
“Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.”

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