"The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is."

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Source : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2007). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.220, Cosimo, Inc.

Emma Curtis Hopkins

#World Quotes #Persist Quotes #Affirming Quotes

“I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.”
“I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.”
“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”
“Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.”

Source : "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.
“Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.”

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