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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

John Hume

Example, Discrimination, Grew Up

"Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

Bill Watterson

Disappointment, People, Risk

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Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

Gary Larson

Glasses, House, Bird

Gary Larson (1984). “The Far Side Gallery”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

Angela Merkel

Strong, Sorry, Team

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.

Amitav Ghosh

Grandmother, Journey, Going Away

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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Carl Jung

Fate, Creative, Joy

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The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

Carl Jung

Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

"Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

Education, Punishment, Doe

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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

B. F. Skinner

Memories, Men, Thinking

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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thucydides

Winning, Past, Romance

History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 1, ch. 1

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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Fabius Maximus

Men, Office, Opinion

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That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.

Marat Safin

Years, Play, Three

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry A. Kissinger

Believe, Men, Essence

"The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that.

Rush Limbaugh

New York, Stupid, Reading

"Limbaugh invented "racial component" to Hackett's decision to withdraw from Ohio primary race" by Julie Millican, www.mediamatters.org. February 15, 2006.

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Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

Thom Yorke

Strange, Divine, Humans

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Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Tennessee Williams

People, Radical Change, Spirit

Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.15, Yale University Press

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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Eugene Ionesco

Writing, Use, Tribes

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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

Herman Melville

Giving, Quests, Wrecks

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

Poul Anderson

Stars, Personality, Machines

"Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This can happen on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly.

Gus Grissom

Mind, Care, Lasts

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I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected, But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator and I connected. He told me, "Fear not for thou art protected. Your life is being requested.

Cee Lo Green

Art, Rap, Passion

Song: Big Ole Words, 2002

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Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

Ronald Reagan

Lying, Presidential, Risk

A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

George W. Bush

Country, Government, Views

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May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

Woodrow Wilson

Believe, Men, Presidential

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Harry S. Truman

Believe, Political, Principles

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