"not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.255, U of Nebraska Press

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Clever Quotes #Cleverness Quotes

“In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.”

Source : Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.323, University of Virginia Press
“While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.”
“When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.”
“Let them hate me, so long as they fear me!”

Source : "Fictional character: Caligula". "Caligula", 1979.
“A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.”
“I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.”
“Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.”
“Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.”

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