"Want is the mistress of invention"

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Source : Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9

Susanna Centlivre

#Mistress Quotes #Want Quotes #Invention Quotes

“It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.”
“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”
“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”

Source : D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”
“My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
“As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?”
“Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.”

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