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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ↗

— Diane Abbott

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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