"To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge."

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“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

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"Shakespeare gets to the root of the alcohol question in his well-known statement—'Good wine is a good, familiar creature if it be well used.'"

— William Osler

Medicine1849–1919

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"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear — I'm a commander guy."

— George W. Bush

Politics1824–1900

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"The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it."

— John Bodkin Adams

Medicine1899–1983

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"In a word, show people what they cannot understand and immediately they will ascribe it to something they can understand — for that is ever the tendency of the ignorant."

— Cyril Scott

Literature1879–1970

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