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Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Through

• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Nation

• I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men's clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like - projecting strength through femininity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Men
  • Simplicity

• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
  • May

• The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Learned

• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Anything

• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Consequences

• The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Saws

• After a few weeks, Frank did not appear to want Martha there, but she stayed. When Frank stopped speaking to her, it made no difference and they lived that way for twenty years.

  

  Olga Masters
  • Frank
  • Appear
  • Martha

• Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

  

  William Cowper
  • Religion
  • Needs
  • Heavenly

• To know life, one must love many things.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Knows

• I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

  

  Willie Morris
  • People
  • Moments
  • Memories

• The Nehruvian dream [the ending of poverty and ignorance and inequality of opportunity.] today has become a pungent necessity, inescapable necessity. In 1947, one could say that it was a dream, it was Gandhi's dream also. But now it has become an inescapable necessity for us to translate that dream into practice. And I think that dream cannot be abandoned. We have to pursue it and pursue it in realistic terms. I see that India can do it. And India must do it.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Dream
  • Ending
  • Inequality

• The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

  

  Efraim Zuroff
  • Hope
  • Citizenship
  • Cancelled

• I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Generation
  • Nostalgia
  • My Friends

• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

  

  Solon
  • Souls
  • Desires
  • Chastity