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Joseph Conrad:The belief in a supernatural


The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
by Joseph Conrad


Edna Ferber:A woman can look both moral and


A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.
by Edna Ferber


Gurdjieff:Man has the possibility of existence


Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
by Gurdjieff


Helen Rowland:A bachelor never quite gets over


A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
by Helen Rowland


Helen Rowland:A bachelor never quite gets over


A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
by Helen Rowland


E.B. White:The future ... seems to me no unified


The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
by E.B. White


Lewis Mumford:Western society has accepted as


Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
by Lewis Mumford


Alan Wilson Watts:The configuration of my


The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places.
by Alan Wilson Watts


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