"If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse."

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Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.55, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

#Inspired Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Hunches Quotes

“That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
“The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.”
“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

Source : Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press
“Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.”

Source : James Stephens (1962). “A James Stephens Reader”
“The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it”
“I want eternity. I was born for greater things...”
“My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.”

Source : "Nicole Miller in the Flesh". Interview with Fabiola Beracasa, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2009.
“I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.”

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