"The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity . The present is no more, by the time you have said, This is present."

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Source : "The Lady Paramount". Book by Henry Harland, Chapter 7, 1902.

Henry Harland

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“I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.”

Source : Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.100, Writer's Digest Books
“What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?”
“The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.”

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“Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.”
“Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.”
“Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.”
“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.”
“Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?”

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