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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

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There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

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We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. ↗

— Campbell Newman

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