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"Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world."

"Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have."

"Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all—those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others."

"A nation of deities with the Emperor at its center."

"Perry gave his usual impersonation of a man who has simultaneously been told to say 'Cheese' and shot in the back with a poisoned arrow."

"In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own."

"Money expresses all qualitative differences of things in terms of "how much?" Money, with all its colorlessness and indifference, becomes the common denominator of all values; irreparably it hollows o…"

"I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not an anarchist."

"Abdul Qadir Badaoni who was then one of Akbar's court chaplains or imams, states that he sought an interview with the emperor when the royal troops were marching against Rana Pratap in 1576, begging l…"

"The captain! O Monstro! He's impressive, He's one of the two best in the world with Sergio Ramos. You could add Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci but they need each other, while Thiago Silva is s…"

"Don’t quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones."

"It's nothing to do with you anyway."

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl."

"This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat."

"Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors."

"Nothing compares to getting a laugh. You have to assume it on something like voice work."

"When I called upon Dr. Johnson next morning, I found him highly satisfied with his colloquial prowess the preceding evening. "Well, we had good talk." BOSWELL: "Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several …"

"Anas said, "A man came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah, I want to travel, so provision me.' He said, 'May Allah provision you with taqwa.' He sai…"

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."

"5192. To kill two Birds with one Stone."