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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. ↗

— August Strindberg

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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. ↗

— Charles Sumner

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I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. ↗

— Neil Tennant

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks. ↗

— John Tesh

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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

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