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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

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The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. ↗

— Richard Rogers

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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