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End, Nikolai Berdyaev

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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 ...

Eternity, Henry Brooks Adams

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907) h...

Automobiles and transport, Roland Barthes

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I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with pas...

Religion·Faith, Peter De Vries

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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

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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...

Vampires, Theda Bara

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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...

Money, Aristotle Onassis

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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis, quoted in Aristotle Onassis: A Biography...

Reality, Lily Tomlin

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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Lily Tomlin

Worry, John Lubbock

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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. - John Lubbock

Advice, Cynthia Heimel

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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool,...