"Rome was not built in a day."

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“Put you in this pickle.”

“As ill-luck would have it.”

“The soldier who executes his captain's commands is no less valuable than the captain who gave the order.”

“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.”

“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.”

“-->* They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”

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"There may be only a thousand or so people here, but it’s easy enough to make the pressure of conformity irresistible. Hell, sometimes we only need one other person to make us fall into line."

— Emma Newman

Literature1976

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"One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone."

— Abby Sunderland

1993

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"It is true that in recent years a number of attractive histories of mathematics have been published in England and America, but these have only dealt with Greek mathematics as part of the larger subje…"

— Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics1861–1940

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"Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has …"

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education1895–1986

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