"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

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Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

Helen Rowland

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“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”
“What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?”

Source : "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.
“When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.”
“...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.”

Source : Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.”
“I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!”
“State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.”
“He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.”

Source : "Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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