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“I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.”
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“Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.”
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“Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.”
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“Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscious of how we live and what we do right and what we do so awfully wrong.”
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“You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.”
Source : "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016. 
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“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”
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“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.”
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“You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”
Source : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”
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“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
