"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."

-- David Hume

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“I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,”
“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing
“As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.”
“Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.”
“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.”

Source : Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold
“I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo, but as I met more brilliant, accomplished plant spirit thought leaders, my thoughts started to shift to, "What am I missing here?"”
“When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.”

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