"This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from."

-- Katharine Weber

#Mind Quotes #Literature Quotes #Great Minds Quotes

“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
“This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.”

Source : "The Question Mark Inside". Text projections onto St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2008.
“Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.”
“The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty”
“If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.”
“I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in”
“Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.”
“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”

Source : "Grappling with the Monster; Or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink" by Timothy Shay Arthur, (Ch. 4), 1877.

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