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The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
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No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
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They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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My sister thought about it for a few moments. "Well, that's boring," she said finally. "Why can't you read ***** of something fun that I could borrow?" I laughed. "Maybe later.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.
