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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. ↗

— Jean Stafford

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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. ↗

— Jack Bowman

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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. ↗

— Ariel Durant

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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. ↗

— Ang Lee

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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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