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Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#any #before #come #corner #day

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. ↗

— John Calvin

#confidence #intelligence #our #out #own

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#electoral #europe #laws #more #states

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. ↗

— John Cameron

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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that. ↗

— James Douglas

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #carry #day #does #heaven

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. ↗

— Cao Cao

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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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