"Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it."

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Augustus William Hare

#Advice Quotes #Faces Quotes #Wry Quotes

“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.18, Open Road Media
“There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.”
“I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...”
“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.”

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