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"The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity."

— Sean Russell

Literature1893–1940

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"The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future. Th…"

— Alfred Jules Ayer

Philosophy1910–1989

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"I am cross and depressed, and people bore me with their excessive attentions. I can't breathe, I can't work; I feel alone, alone, alone, although I am surrounded. There are a whole lot of ladies, 70 t…"

— Frédéric Chopin

Music1810–1849

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"There is a time for helpless acquiescence and a time for action. But to-day is it not the duty of the United States and of the British Empire and the other 23 nations to warn Japan that they will seve…"

— John Maynard Keynes

Economics1883–1946

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