"A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven."

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Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.303

#Glasses Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.”

Source : "'Sleeping Beauty' Star Emily Browning: 'I knew it would be more intense than anything I’ve done before'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. November 30, 2011.
“1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan”
“A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.”
“You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.”
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.”

Source : "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.
“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”
“I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.”

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