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“Women are damn resilient.”
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“Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.”
Source : "Behind the Music: Gregorian Trap at En Noir Spring 2014" by Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. September 13, 2013.
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“The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.”
Source : Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers
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“Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.”
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“Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.”
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“Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.”
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“My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.”
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“Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.”
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“The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.”
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“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”
Source : Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria