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The Queen Mother, with a lifetime’s popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as...
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,… A man might divorce his wife, or...
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you...
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who...
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about...
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the...