Harry Houdini Quotes
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Quotes to Explore
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
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A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
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I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.
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The only shame is to have none.
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Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.
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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
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If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.
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In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.
