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“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.”
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“No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.”
Source : Diana Palmer (2014). “September Morning”, p.20, Harlequin
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“Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.”
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“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.”
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“Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.”
Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”
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“Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.”
Source : John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University
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“For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.”
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“We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.”