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Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds…The moral of all this…is that we have the kind of advertising we deserve.
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If it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it's an absolute toss-up, isn't it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
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The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.
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She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.
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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Dorothy L. Sayers
Born:
June 13, 1893
Died:
December 17, 1957
(aged 64)
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