"God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains."

-- Charles Bradlaugh

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“Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went through "storms," as the Jacques Brel song says. But if there's one area where we never had the slightest disagreement, it was art. Never. Not once. Not about painting, not about opera, not about theater. We were always in complete communion. Of course, that's how all of the collection came into being.”
“What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.”
“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.
“I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.”
“Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.”

Source : Kirk Douglas (2000). “Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
“How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.”
“Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.”

Source : Julianne MacLean (2015). “The Color of Heaven Series Collection: An 8-book Women’s Fiction Boxed Set”, p.150, Julianne MacLean

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