"I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind."

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Laurie Foos

#Live Life Quotes #Mind Quotes #Mixtures Quotes

“Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.”
“Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.”
“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”
“A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.”
“I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.”
“How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?”
“I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.”

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