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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia
Author
Evelyn Waugh
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

Category:
Prison
Author
Evelyn Waugh
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Other Quotes from
Philosophical
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Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. РHenri-Fr̩d̩ric Amiel

Category:
Philosophical

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. – Polish Proverb

Category:
Philosophical

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

Category:
Philosophical

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. РAlbert Szent-Gy̦rgyi

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Philosophical

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Retire from work, but not from life. – M.K. Soni

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Category:
Hope

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think its like a battery: youve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. – Dolly Parton

Category:
positive

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose. – Josh Brolin

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positive