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“A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.”
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“In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its own inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. Every being declares itself to the entire universe. Every being enters into communion with other beings. In every phase of our imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional lives we are profoundly dependent on this larger context of the surrounding world.”
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“The European community of values is unique: It combines democracy with the market economy, individual freedoms with social justice. How can we expect the U.S. or China to defend these values, this one-of-a-kind European balancing act that has developed over the course of decades?”
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“When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.”
Source : Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.
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“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
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“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”
Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press
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“And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.”
Source : Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press
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“Love is always saying you're sorry.”
