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“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”
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“It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.”
Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA
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“I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.”
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“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
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“The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.”
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“Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.”
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“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.”
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“There's got to be grief.”
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“If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?”
Source : Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”
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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies”
