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“If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.”
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“There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest...”
Source : "History of the Republic of the United States of America".
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“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”
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“I'm a 'What you see is what I want you to see' kind of girl . . . When I first started, I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to say I loved bunnies and rainbows and world peace. I realized that the only way to be perfect was to embrace your imperfections.”
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“Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.”
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“One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the floor, watching me with his beady little crab eyes. I think he wanted to get in bed with me.”
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“As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.”
Source : "Surfer on the new wave". Interview with Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
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“To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.”
Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.187, tredition
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“The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!”
Source : William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160
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“With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.”