Lily James on emotion

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)

• I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

  Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)

• Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 1, Chapter 13

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