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Quote by William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.”

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, was an outstanding British judge whose influence on the legal field was profound. He was renowned for his fairness and wisdom. more

“People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.”

People Ifs Kind Made Sometimes Eye Bits Decision Gone Fire Doors Walking Safe Died Corpses

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.”

World Needs Believe Shows Problem Life Is Waiting Wonder Magic Don't Believe Mystical Showing Up

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“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.”

Art Form Creativity Creative Magic Art Is Familiar Surprising Unseen Enlightening Persuasive Creative Art Edification

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

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“We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.”