"It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is."

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Source : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.24

James Mill

“You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.”
“To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?”

Source : Ted Simon (1984). “Riding Home”
“In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.”
“For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“How can you stop writing?”
“Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.”
“It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company
“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”

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