Action, Beaumont and Fletcher

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Captain (c. 1609–12; published 1647), Act V, scene 5.

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End, Nikolai Berdyaev

What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.

- Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)

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Eternity, Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

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Automobiles and transport, Roland Barthes

I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)

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Religion·Faith, Peter De Vries

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

- Peter De Vries

Literature, Edith Hamilton

Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

~ Edith Hamilton ~

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Vampires, Theda Bara

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

- Theda Bara, a.k.a. "The Vamp", attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16

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Money, Aristotle Onassis

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle Onassis, quoted in Aristotle Onassis: A Biography (1977), by Nicholas Fraser

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