"We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble."

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Fulton J. Sheen

“When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 80, 1958.
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Source : Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro
“We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown”
“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.”

Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge
“When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I was like, That's all? I didn't know any better.”
“I feel like I am wlaking down into a ***** movie" V mutteres as they took the steps with care. "Wouldn't that require more black candles for you", Zsadist cracked.....”
“The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.”

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