Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
Alexander Pushkin
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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MARGARET MITCHELL You mean old books?"
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PHILIP K. DICK Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
STEVEN GERRARD Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
JAMES BROUGHTON In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in...
WALLACE STEVENS I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people se...
PRINCE Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
DOROTHY HODGKIN As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he ...
JENNIFER GRANT Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bo...
ARNOLD PALMER You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.
LEWIS BLACK As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAY Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at t...
IGOR STRAVINSKY Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at...
IGOR STRAVINSKY As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the ...
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JAKE ARRIETA Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
HELEN REDDY When I started doing this stuff in the '70s, a lot of creditors were suppliers who needed [the filer...
JACK AYER Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.
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IWAN GOLL We were tired. I didn't think we needed to stifle their momentum as much as we needed a break. We ju...
ROD SCHWARZ Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. ...
REMO D'SOUZA In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY A diamond in the rough is worth just as much as a diamond in the clear.
MAXWELL MORGAN INGRAM We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can f...
NATALIE MASSENET In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
LARRY SUMMERS Our priority is to get much needed aid to those undiscovered communities as soon as possible.
CHRIS MCDONALD Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
ROB CORDDRY Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN Much-needed victory. We played as one.
MARCUS WALTON Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Ale...
JULIAN BARNES As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
AUSTIN CLARKE It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a repro...
RUSH LIMBAUGH You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
DAVID ORTIZ Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER It really just confirmed that, as she always said - 'poetry is my first love'.
PAMELA GORDON Their cyber laws are not as advanced as those in America but the individuals will be charged, and th...
LOUIS REIGEL There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
EDWARD ABBEY Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past ...
JOHN UPDIKE Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
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Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.
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ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.
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Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little ...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN With belles no longer did he fall in love,
but dangled after them just anyhow;
when they r...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN And once more given to inaction,
Empty in spirit and alone,
He settled down – to the dis...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt dis...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'm not interested in being liked.
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can only go forward by making mistakes.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON All generalizations are false, including this one.
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CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN A promise must never be broken.
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ALEXANDER LOWEN The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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LAMAR ALEXANDER Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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LAMAR ALEXANDER When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers...
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LAMAR ALEXANDER I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
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BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
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