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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

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People hate as they love, unreasonably. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#love #people #unreasonably

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line. ↗

— Vinny Testaverde

#bottom line #communicate #line #louder #really

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

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You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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