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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. ↗

— Douglas Mawson

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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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I'm not a religious person. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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