"If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go."

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Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

Elizabeth Janeway

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“We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Churchâ€”first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.”
“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.”
“The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.”
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”
“Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.”
“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2010). “The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.316, Dell
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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