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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
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“I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.”
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“Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.”
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“Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.”
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“On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.”
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“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”
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“Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger”
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“Your soul is the root, its the root of everything. And when He tells you how to handle sex, He made it, its awesome, its beautiful, it has a purpose. And when He tells you how to handle it, there's a reason He says, This is connected to your soul and if you misuse it, your soul will wilt and will waste away. You can use it how you want to because you have the freedom to do that but in the end I'm telling you how to have the life to the fullest.”
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“I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.”
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“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”
Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
