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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. ↗

— James D. Watkins

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky. ↗

— Joe Sakic

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When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky. ↗

— Joe Sakic

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can be claimed that modernity should be equated with the possession of superior technology. But this response may itself reflect the modern fetishization of technology, which make it a magical solution for human problems. ↗

— Alexander Edmonds

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