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'She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,' said Luce... 'I wonder if anyone is born to obey,' said Isabel. 'That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.'

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A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Born: June 5, 1884
Died: August 27, 1969 (aged 85)
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