"It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself."

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“Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.”

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“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”

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“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

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"I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place."

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literature1802–1838

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"The world as a sense, independent of the image, of the idea - this is the essence of the content of art. square is not an image, just as a switch or socket are not the current. - Malevich"

— Kazimir Malevich

Art1879–1935

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"The concept of property itself had come up out of the common law and carried with it the idea of a natural, or common-law rights of liberty to acquire, use and dispose of physical things."

— John R. Commons

Economics1862–1945

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"Hadiya Pendleton was me and I was her, but I got to grow up and go to Princeton and Harvard Law School and have a career and a family and the most blessed life I could ever imagine. And Hadiya, we kno…"

— Michelle Obama

Politics1964

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