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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

• The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mistake
  • Approach
  • Turns

• For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Emotion
  • Desires
  • Luxury

• This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • God
  • Taken
  • Sorry

• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Rule
  • Souls
  • Killing

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

  

  Solon
  • Souls
  • Desires
  • Chastity