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People die when curiosity goes.
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in…
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…
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What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with…
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes…
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.…
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,…
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…
— Honore de Balzac
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Unknown Author
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
— Oliver Sacks
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
— Billy Joel
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted…
— William James
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I really need a gin and tonic.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
— June Allyson
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