"Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music."

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2014). “Aurora Floyd”, p.298, Jazzybee Verlag

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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“If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.”
“I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.”

Source : "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.
“There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.”
“I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.”
“The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 133, 1949.
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
“You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.”
“I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.”

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