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last updated: November 28, 2023

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
-- Harriet Martineau

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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
-- Henrik Ibsen

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A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.
-- Kate Chopin

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.172

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
-- Thomas de Quincey

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“So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.”
“Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.”
“I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.”
“Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.”
“When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.”
“There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.”
“Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.”
“I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.”
“I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.”
“Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.”