"Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes." — Diogenes

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• Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
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• A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw
• Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values.… — Jacques Monod
• Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of… — Charles Babbage
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