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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ↗

— George S. Patton

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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

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Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

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