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#1. The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

Claes Oldenburg

#2. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

John Taylor Gatto

#5. What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

Eric Cantona

#6. You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

Blue Balliett

#7. He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course.

Hugh Howey

#8. I needed a whole heart once in my life. Is that so wrong?

Angela Morrison

#9. For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the Twelve Apostles as Chinamen.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati