"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

#Two Quotes #Important Quotes #Body Quotes

“There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.”
“In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.”
“The sun still shines.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sophie Magdalena Scholl". "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days", 2005.
“I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.”

Source : "Truly Outrageous: Mia Sara (A.K.A. Sloane Peterson) on Fringe Jackets". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 16, 2009.
“Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.”
“I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.”
“There is no such thing as part freedom.”
“He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.”

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