"We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety."

-- Daniel Yergin

#Anxiety Quotes #Age Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.”

Source : John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins
“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
“Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.”
“The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.”
“Things never are as bad as they seem.”
“My first album was completed in three months.”
“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
“Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.”

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