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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
The falcone cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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