"Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition."

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Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

Arthur Hugh Clough

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“I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.”
“There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.”
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.”
“It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.”
“Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.110, Grove Press
“Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.99, Canongate Books
“Work is a surefire money-making scheme.”

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