"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."

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Ford Madox Ford

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“I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.”
“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.”
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”
“We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.”
“If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.”
“To cease to love -- that is defeat.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
“Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .”
“I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.”

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