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  • Philip Larkin Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Conrad Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Caroline Glick Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
    Source: Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. Discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
    Greg LeMond
     
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  • Benigno Aquino III Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • David Foster Wallace Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Thomas Carlyle Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Szasz Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Jeremy Collier Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Madame Dorothé Deluzy Perseverance and audacity generally win!
    Madame Dorothé Deluzy
    French actress
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