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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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The faith I was born into formed me. ↗

— Huston Smith

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I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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