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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

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I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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