"The brain heals the past like an injury ..."

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Source : Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.431, Bloomsbury Publishing

Arthur Miller

#Past Quotes #Brain Quotes #Injury Quotes

“All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.”
“In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.”
“Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.”
“I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.”
“Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.”

Source : Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”
“The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.”

Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (1978). “Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs”, p.33, Zondervan

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