"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."

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Source : 1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

Mary Astell

#Reflection Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.”

Source : Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.
“The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.”
“My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.
“If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.”
“Envy suggests inferiority.”
“All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.”

Source : Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (1941). “Ludwig Feuerbach & the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy”, p.11, International Publishers Co
“I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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