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I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe. ↗

— William Lyons

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I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#else #encourage #everything #kids #side

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

#both #edinburgh #glasgow #got #growing

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#arab #arab world #believe #consider #deserve

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject. ↗

— Maimonides

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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#ever #his #i #jefferson #judge

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work. ↗

— Lata Mangeshkar

#been #besides #break #deserve #i

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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