"The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things."

-- Eleanor Catton

#Mean Quotes #Astrology Quotes #Psychology Quotes

“[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.”
“You have to believe in yourself every day.”
“In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.”

Source : "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.
“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.”
“Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!”
“Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.”
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27
“Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary.”

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