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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers. ↗

— John Cale

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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. ↗

— John Cale

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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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