"Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Faults Quotes

“Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.27, Penguin
“Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.”
“Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.”
“...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.”
“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.”

Source : "How My B.S. Detector Works" by Penn Jillette, bigthink.com. 2017.
“If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”

Source : "Bachmann says ‘I don’t judge’ gays". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2011.
“Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!”
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”

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