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We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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Money is the seal and stamp of success.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
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One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
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