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Richard von Weizscker
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
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Harold Laki
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
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Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
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Stirling Moss
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
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Diane Von Furstenberg
Life is a risk.
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Rita Rudner
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
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Agatha Christie
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
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Charles Franklin Kettering
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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Pindar
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
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Jeanne-Marie Roland
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
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Jean Anouilh
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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