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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Friday, June 17, 1977
Sunday, May 8, 1977
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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- 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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- 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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- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport
Sunday, April 3, 1977
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
- Peter De Vries
Sunday, March 27, 1977
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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~ Edith Hamilton ~
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton
Saturday, March 12, 1977
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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- Theda Bara, a.k.a. "The Vamp", attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vampire
Thursday, March 10, 1977
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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- Aristotle Onassis, quoted in Aristotle Onassis: A Biography (1977), by Nicholas Fraser
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money
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