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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours”
Source : The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.
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“A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.”
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“I've never been any good with authority.”
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“Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.”
Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.
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“What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.”
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“We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.”
Source : Brian Cox, Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (2011). “The Quantum Universe: (and Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)”, p.6, Da Capo Press
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“The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.”
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“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”
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“I have an excellent internal compass.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”