"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."

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Thomas Browne

#Causes Quotes #Obstinacy Quotes #Constancy Quotes

“A womanâ€™s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. Weâ€™re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think weâ€™re fat. Beauty is Zenoâ€™s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but itâ€™s not socially acceptable to admit weâ€™re there. We canâ€™t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.”
“Every angel is terrifying.”
“We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]”
“The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014... I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.”

Source : "Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System". www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.
“The good will is all â€” and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.”
“It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.”
“I actually wanted to be a tennis player.”
“Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.”

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