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It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest. ↗

— Frank Knight

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I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

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Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

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I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. ↗

— Charles Schumer

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