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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.


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CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
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VICTOR HUGO The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
EMPEDOCLES The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere
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Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
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Two hearts that beat as one.
E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!
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PAUL GAUGUIN A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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