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John Burns

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
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"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."
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"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."
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"The Thames is liquid history."
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"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."
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"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
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"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
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"Don't hustle old people."
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"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
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"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all."
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