"But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?"

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Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

Helen Waddell

#Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes #Flesh Quotes

“Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.”
“Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.”
“Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps â€” good works.”
“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.”
“I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.”
“Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to extracting from them such information as is relevant to our purpose.”
“The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.”
“By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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