"No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading."

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Source : "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

Ronald Fisher

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“A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”

Source : Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”
“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
“Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.”
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

Source : Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics
“The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.”
“I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.”

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