"Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French."

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Source : Harry Graham (1930). “More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes”

Harry Graham

#Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Honor Quotes

“All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.55, Princeton University Press
“Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.”
“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”
“It takes three facts to make a truth.”
“There are times when I'm so bored with being healthy and organic that I crave sugar and additives.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You read too much and understand too little.”
“I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.”

Source : Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com
“True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.”

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