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“My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.”
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“I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.”
Source : Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.4, Souvenir Press Ltd
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“I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.”
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“Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.”
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“The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”
Source : "Analogies between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 1990.
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“Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.”
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“Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.”
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“No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner”
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“Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.”
Source : Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org
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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.”
Source : "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.