"Things forbidden have a secret charm."

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Source : "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

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“The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.”
“You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.”
“We can only avoid the traps we can see.”
“Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.”
“No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.”

Source : Victoria Moran (2009). “Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”, p.36, Harper Collins
“I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.”
“Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.”

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