"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."

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“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”

“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”

“It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.”

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

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"our hundred years hence the power question in England may be solved somewhat as follows: The country will be covered with rows of metallic windmills working electric motors which in their turn supply …"

— J. B. S. Haldane

Mathematics1892–1964

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"Yes, star-crossed in pleasure, the stream flows on byYes, as we're sated in leisure, we watch it fly, yesAnd time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me... Hours are like diamonds, don't let them …"

— Mick Jagger

Music1943

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"When all these things are lacking there is no culture; there is in the strictest sense of the word, barbarism. And let us not deceive ourselves, this is what is beginning to appear in Europe under the…"

— José Ortega y Gasset

Philosophy1883–1955

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"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed."

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

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