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“To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.”

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Margaret George is a renowned British historian, born on January 19, 1943. She is known for her research on British historical figures, particularly her biographies of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. more

“Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.”

Thinking Knows Want Inspirational Feels Littles Dream Motivational Heaven Imagine Atheism Possibility Demand Highest Atheist Conception Reverence

Author:Ayn Rand

“Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

Men Feelings Evil Powerful Principles Wonderful Strange Mere Inspired Noble One Time Virtuous Magnificent Vicious Godlike Narration Scions

Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!”

Moments Hands Together Forever Brother Draws Eternity Divinity Brothers And Sisters Hand In Hand Lure Irritants

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.”

Purpose Process Wealth Normal Europe Machines Killing Productive Regimes Colossal Short Lived

Author:James Buchan

“What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.”

Beautiful Faces Belief Felt My Own Known Walking Folly Dislike Ugliness Altered Complexion Perplexity Faithless Disenchanted

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”

Men Kind Ideas Ought Careful No Idea Ems Be Kind

Book:WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Jimmyjohn Boss, Napoleon Shave-Tail, Hank's Woman, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Padre Ignacio and more: Historical Novels, Adventures and Romances, Including the First Cowboy Novel Set in the Wild West

Source: WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Jimmyjohn Boss, Napoleon Shave-Tail, Hank's Woman, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Padre Ignacio and more: Historical Novels, Adventures and Romances, Including the First Cowboy Novel Set in the Wild West

“But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?”

Knows Men Soul Say Anything Admission

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.”

Knows Want Might Courses Strong Community Claims Very Strong

Book:No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.”

Plans Divine Creator Monsters Horrible Features

Book:Name of the Rose

Source: Name of the Rose

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