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Charles Webster Leadbeater

"It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature."

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

Charles Webster Leadbeater

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“When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.”

Source : Jack Finney (2013). “From Time to Time”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

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“More rationale decreases subjectivity.”
“It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.”
“I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.”
“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”
“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.”
“I was more of a weightlifter.”

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