"The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight."

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“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

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“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”

“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

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"I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 19…"

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"I know that even in this faithless age there are many persons to whom the Bible is what it was to Calvin — its smallest word as really the voice of God, its most trifling part as sacred; and to these …"

— James Anthony Froude

Religion1818–1894

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"Internal inducements to expansion arise largely from the existence of a pool of unused productive services, resources and special knowledge, all of which will always be found within any firm."

— Edith Penrose

Economics1914–1996

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