„I will repeat what I once said to Guillaume Apollinaire: “For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.”“

— Henri Matisse

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„Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.“
— Catherine the Great
„For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.“
— Jane Austen
„I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life“
— Jean Paul Sartre