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William Makepeace Thackeray
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Niccolò Machiavelli
“Every one sees what you seem, but few know what you are ...”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Oliver Sacks
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

Karl Marx
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Karl Marx

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