"Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either."

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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.298, Courier Corporation

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#Life And Death Quotes #Littles Quotes #Mysterious Quotes

“If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.”
“You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.”
“I think I am probably a lot like my father.”
“I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.”
“But to win, I was overwhelmed - it felt great! I was really excited. I didn't expect it, but I'm also really competitive. As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.”

Source : "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY Interveiw, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.
“Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.”
“I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow...”
“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

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