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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects. ↗

— John Pople

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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel. ↗

— Gail Porter

#fun #i #people #people say #say

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. ↗

— Gail Porter

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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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