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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

-- Frederick Soddy

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A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

-- Jacques Derrida

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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

-- Charles Babbage

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Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth.

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Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

-- Gaston Bachelard

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His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.

-- John Maynard Keynes

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself

-- Charles Dickens

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