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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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- Sherlock Holmes This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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-- Anonymous This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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-- Arnold Bennett History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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