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Quote by Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. – Victor Hugo

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo

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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams

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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Were a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports. – Claudio Reyna

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The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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