"It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds."

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Source : Marissa Moss (2011). “The Pharaoh's Secret”, p.69, Abrams

Marissa Moss

#Most Amazing Quotes

“I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ***** as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.”
“One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to obtain their schooling, their training and development, and to perfect themselves, but many have allowed themselves to be diverted and have become . . . addicts to mental and spiritual indolence and to the pursuit of worldly pleasure.”
“I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.”
“Iâ€™m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but canâ€™t, the way they look at someone they want or loveâ€¦ I love the way people look when they do these things. Itâ€™sâ€¦ beautiful.”
“I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.”
“Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.”

Source : Jack Vance (1965). “The Dragon Masters”, p.48, Spatterlight Press
“Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.”
“The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

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