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This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice.
– Andr Gide

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  25. My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. – Sinclair Lewis
  27. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself. – Shannon L Alder
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