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There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman. People bel

There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman. People believe in them, just as they used to believe in unicorns and dragons. The greatest man or woman is ninety-nine per cent just like yourself. – George Bernard Shaw, 1932

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Think of the Unicorn, that curious symbol of retirement from the world… – Edward Carpenter, “Tradition, Convention, and the Gods,” c.1898

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The unicorn stands alone, still as frost. It keeps watch down the corridors of time. The past and the future meet in the presence of the unicorn; the darkness and light become one. Patient as a candle flame, inviolate, here is our guardian, keeper of the silent unknown. – Josephine Bradley, c.1980

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I believe that the Unicorn may come to represent… the realm of art…. Bereft of a complete fable, the Unicorn has earned a place in our imagination as an arcanum, an emblem of what we do not know. – Roger Shattuck (1923–2005), “The Sphinx and the Unicorn,” Forbidden Knowle

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Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn. – Elle Lothlorien [Post-publication paraphrase. Original: “I was told to just be m

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