"Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away."

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Lafcadio Hearn

#Inspiration Quotes #Race Quotes #Europe Quotes

“The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being.”
“I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.”
“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”

Source : "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.
“Silence sweeter is than speech.”
“Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.”
“Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.”
“I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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