For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. - Theodora

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There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

Theodora

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

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It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

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For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

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Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

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Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

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I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

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During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

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Zak Bagans

I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.

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Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

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Robert Fulghum

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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