"There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real."

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Source : E. Nesbit (1907). “The Enchanted Castle”, p.170, Lulu.com

E. Nesbit

#Strong Quotes #Real Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“I've never heard a White House staff say that the president was too stupid or too ill-informed to have broken the law. And that's really what it comes down to. The truth is, he leaked highly classified information that he shouldn't have leaked. It's one thing to say, "Hey, I'm the president. Nobody can punish me for that." It's another thing entirely to just deny that he did it. We know that he did it. And he really ought to own up to it.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“When in doubt, risk it”
“The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1904). “Wonders of life”
“I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.”
“Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul - to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.”
“The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .”

Source : Brainerd Currie, Learned Hand, United States. Supreme Court (1953). “The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion”
“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”
“Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board”

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