What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. - Julius Caesar

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To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

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As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

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Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

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The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

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Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

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To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

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I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.

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