"Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'."

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Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2007). “Undead and Uneasy: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.133, Penguin

MaryJanice Davidson

#Fun Quotes #Mean Quotes #Week Quotes

“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing
“The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.”
“Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.”
“Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.”
“Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words....”
“You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.”
“If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?”
“Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.”

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