"ideas are dangerous commodities."

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Source : E.C.R. Lorac (2015). “Murder by Matchlight”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

E. C. R. Lorac

#Ideas Quotes #Commodity Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”
“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”
“When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.”
“The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become witnesses of the Savior and the truthfulness of this work not only in word but also in keeping our covenants and in how we treat others and in how we live our everyday lives.”
“I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.”
“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”
“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”
“For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.”

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