"The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet."

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“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three .”

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"For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal’s “sin”; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishmen…"

— Georg Brandes

Literature1842–1927

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"The phenomena of power and influence involve a dyadic relation between two agents which may be viewed from two points of view: What determines the behavior of the agent who exerts power? What determin…"

— John R. P. French

Psychology1913–1995

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"Countries with the highest tax rates probably also have the highest unemployment rates. High tax rates certainly do not guarantee fiscal solvency."

— Arthur Laffer

Economics1940

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"By remembering then that I am a part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens. And inasmuch as I am in a manner intimately related to the parts which are of the same kind with …"

— Marcus Aurelius

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