"Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm."

-- Hortense Calisher

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“The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
“Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.”
“The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.”
“Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.”
“I was quiet but I was not blind.”

Source : Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.439, Collector's Library
“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.”
“It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.”

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