"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

-- Henry Home, Lord Kames

#Passion Quotes #Solitude Quotes #World Quotes

“Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.”
“Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.”
“My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.”

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“Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.”
“Life is a means of extracting fiction.”
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love”
“After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”

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