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Amazons, Shakespeare

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Charles: Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon And fightest with the sword of Deborah. - Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene i...

Adversity, Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity...

Birthday., John Glenn

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There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

Animals, James A. Froude

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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. - James...

Death, Grand Inquisitor Silecio

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Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to a...

Mind, Isaac Asimov

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It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose...

Anemone, William Cullen Bryant

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Within the woods, Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade, gray circles of anemones Danced on their stalks. - Willi...

Researcher, Konrad Zuse

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Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zw...

Glory, Cicero

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Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. - Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45 htt...

Storm, John F. Kennedy

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I know there is a God — I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it — if he has a place then I am ready — we see the hand. - John F. K...