It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. - Winston Churchill

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years. . . . i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

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In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

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Every time you wink the stars move.

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Nikka Graff Lanzarone

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

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