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- [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat
- What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and… — Clementine Ford
- Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been… — Maximus the Confessor
- how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave… — John Milton
- It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as… — Joseph Brodsky
- Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say… — Corey Taylor