"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert……" — Jane Austen

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• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the… — Benazir Bhutto
• Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. — Winston Churchill
• But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert… — Brent Scowcroft
• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,… — Benjamin Franklin
• The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of… — Theodore Levitt
• Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can… — James Jeans
• I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the… — Unknown Author
• No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy… — George Bernard Shaw
• We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the… — Thomas Jefferson

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