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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

I'll publish right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.