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• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Religious, Cutting, Practice

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Our World, Different, Earth

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• The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Fall, Goes On

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• Go not to the Elves for counsel,
  for they will say both no and yes.
  Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
  for advice is a dangerous gift,
  even from the wise to the wise,
  and all courses may run ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Running, Giving

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

  John Hume

  Educational, Opinion, Week

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

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• Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

  John Mica

  Tsa, Shoes, Diapers

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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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• In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

  George Barr McCutcheon

  Stories, Firsts, Love Story

  George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.2049, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

  Vikram Seth

  Needs, Propensity, Mesmerized

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.609, Penguin Books India

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• In life's brief game to be a winner
  A man must have...oh yes, above
  All else, of course, someone to love.

  Vikram Seth

  Men, Games, Winner

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• A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

  Sebastian Barry

  Men, Garden, Hiding Something

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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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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• To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Names, Upset

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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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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• It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiration, Men, Feelings

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• It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

  Karl Marx

  Littles, Way, Ass

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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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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• From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

  Polybius

  Judging, Serious, Study

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