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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. ↗

— Latrell Sprewell

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From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before. ↗

— Terence Stamp

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For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. ↗

— I. F. Stone

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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