"I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough."

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Source : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

Elisabeth Marbury

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.”
“Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.”

Source : Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books
“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)”
“Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.”
“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”
“My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.”
“Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.”
“If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.”

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