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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. ↗

— Karl Abraham

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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

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The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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