"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"I think people have to have some feeling that they have some role in shaping their own future and that they are not just spectators on the of kings, presidents, prime ministers and so on which is on t…"

— Tony Benn

Politics1925–2014

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"Aisha said, "The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old." . "He had intercourse with me when I was 9 years old."

— Hazrat Aisha (R.A.)

Politics613–678

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"The stars glittered frostily overhead, unconcerned with the fate of Atlantis — stars that would be shining thousands of years hence when Atlantis was not even a memory."

— Henry Kuttner

Literature1915–1958

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"Scottish literature begins effectively with Archdeacon Barbour's Bruce some sixty years after Bannockburn, and to the Bruce and Blind Harry's Wallace must be attributed much of the colouring and subse…"

— John Barbour

Politics1824–1901

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