"He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour ."

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Source : "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 3, 1915.

Andrew Dickson White

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“Without invention nothing is well-spaced.”
“Always desire to learn something useful”
“No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.”

Source : "Women’s Rights at Stake: Why Iowa Feminists Should Caucus for President Obama" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2011.
“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
“To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.”
“I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth.”

Source : ""Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
“When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.360

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