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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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