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The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#humor #man #more #nothing #sense

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#cow #doing #feeds #imagine #like

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#association #bilateral #causes #commercial #decisions

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#gloriously #going #know #then #you

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#essence #manifestation #periodical #universe #unknown

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#actually #compilation #fragmented #full #just

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#doing #drama #elements #film #forget

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#embark #glorious #great #i #i think

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#few #few things #fifty #found #hardest