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'Who controls the past', ran the party slogan, 'controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past.'

Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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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.