"Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible."

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Source : James Laver (1949). “Style in costume”

James Laver

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“The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.”
“The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”

Source : "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.
“Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.”
“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”
“We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.”

Source : Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.
“I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.”
“What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.”

Source : David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press
“You just canâ€™t live in Texas/if you donâ€™t have a lot of soul.”

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