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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. ↗

— David Garrick

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Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. ↗

— Lennart Meri

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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. ↗

— David Hare

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ↗

— Frank Miller

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I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ↗

— Titus Livius

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The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

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