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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
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“What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary”
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“According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”
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“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
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