"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."

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"You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit."

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Terence Rattigan, British Dramatist

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"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd."

Ivor Novello, Welsh Musician

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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."

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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."

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"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."

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