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... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
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What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.
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I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
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Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
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Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.
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Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list,
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On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
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You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.
