"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame."

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John Lyly

#Heart Quotes #Past Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.”

Source : "Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". Interview with Stephen McCauley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.”
“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.”
“The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.”
“Headlines twice the size of the events.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2008). “End of the Chapter: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Thou shalt not take anything on faith”
“And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.”
“Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.”

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