"The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.”
“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”
“Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.”
“Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.”
“The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.”
“Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.”
“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2017). “The History Man: Picador Classic”, p.141, Pan Macmillan
“Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.”

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