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He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a variegated shadow which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed. He had shewn her that bodily rapture might be the ritual and expression of the ineffable mysteries, of the world beyond sense, that must be entered by the way of sense; and now she believed. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#religion

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

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I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#buck #day #guy #happy #him

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands. ↗

— David Duval

#ball #grew #grown #hit #i

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#behind #could #get #got #huge

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. ↗

— Marquis de Condorcet

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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#company #during #encouraged #ended #first

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world. ↗

— Sean Connery

#less #nations #nothing #other #scotland