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Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid."
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid. Dorothy L. Sayers
Groucho Marx quote: "Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must..."
Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same, I must be going. Groucho Marx
Marcel Proust quote: "You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes."
You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes. Marcel Proust
And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Antonio Gramsci quote: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is..."
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born Antonio Gramsci
Nelson Mandela quote: "One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing..."
One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Nelson Mandela
For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him C. S. Lewis
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THEman. Doris Lessing
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Frederic Bastiat
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of... Walter Benjamin
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree. Bertrand Russell
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. John Steinbeck
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

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