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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- Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eternity
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)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport
- Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Automobiles_and_transport
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
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
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
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
Worry, John Lubbock
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
- John Lubbock
- John Lubbock
Advice, Cynthia Heimel
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, appraising glance at his pals.
- Cynthia Heimel
그 사람이 사랑하는 사람으로 판단하지 말고, 그의 친구로 판단하십시오. 사람들은 가장 형편없는 사람들과 사랑에 빠집니다. 침착하고 냉정하게 그의 친구들을 바라보십시오.
- 신시아 하이멜
- Cynthia Heimel
그 사람이 사랑하는 사람으로 판단하지 말고, 그의 친구로 판단하십시오. 사람들은 가장 형편없는 사람들과 사랑에 빠집니다. 침착하고 냉정하게 그의 친구들을 바라보십시오.
- 신시아 하이멜
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