"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty."

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Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.129, Delacorte Press

William Landay

#Mind Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.194, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”

Source : 1977 In Woman magazine, 9 Apr.
“Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.”
“If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.”
“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.”
“A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.”
“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”
“Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.”

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