"Vanity is often the unseen spur."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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“...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.”
“Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.”
“At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.”
“We also can't be naÃ¯ve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their countries of origin. We already have enough problems here and we don't need to import anymore.”
“Luke Cage is using his open hand instead of a closed fist. It's a little disrespectful but it's very effective. Some people call it a pimp slap, we call it smack-fu. He's doing you a favour by hitting you with an open hand. It hurts, it renders you unconscious but you live.”
“We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.”
“That's what all painting is about, itâ€s space and light occupied by human presences.”
“Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE

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