Oliver Joseph Lodge quote: "Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here."

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body,...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able w...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find ...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinc...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the ...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad con...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signi...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby contr...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separat...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrat...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but...
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE

I was here with Camille and lived in Florida when Andrew hit and nothing compares to this. This is a...
JOSEPH OLIVER

I think that the vast majority of students they felt safe being at school, they felt that they were ...
JOSEPH OLIVER

There were six students who met with adjustment counselors throughout the day that had various conce...
JOSEPH OLIVER

I have never lived through anything like this before,
JOSEPH OLIVER

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infin...
DAVID LODGE

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existenc...
DAVID LODGE

Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
DAVID LODGE

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infin...
DAVID LODGE

Una curva de la calle puso ante su vista el campanario de la catedral de Westminster, la forma fáli...
DAVID LODGE

La desgracia de Adam Appleby era que, en cuanto despertaba del sueño, su conciencia se inundaba inm...
DAVID LODGE

All cats are grey in the dark.
THOMAS LODGE

Love, in my bosom, like a bee, / Doth suck his sweet.
THOMAS LODGE

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.
DAVID LODGE

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some ki...
DAVID LODGE

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by...
DAVID LODGE

We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now t...
DAVID LODGE

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to ...
DAVID LODGE

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic lif...
DAVID LODGE

The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was firs...
DAVID LODGE

Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictio...
DAVID LODGE

The damages are far reaching - from the shoreline, to the pipes of power plants and municipal waterw...
DAVID LODGE

She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made read...
DAVID LODGE

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way roun...
DAVID LODGE

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...
DAVID LODGE

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of ...
DAVID LODGE

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence...
DAVID LODGE

As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of ...
DAVID LODGE

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way roun...
DAVID LODGE

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provid...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddl...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
HENRY CABOT LODGE

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Animosity is not a policy.
HENRY CABOT LODGE

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if h...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective y...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and witho...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than a...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels ...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even w...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marve...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to so...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargai...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
HENRY CABOT LODGE

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the p...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believ...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise ev...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in ever...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations
HENRY CABOT LODGE

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even w...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Animosity is not a policy
HENRY CABOT LODGE

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this coun...
HENRY CABOT LODGE

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.
RENI EDDO-LODGE

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER

I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heav...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heav...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put ...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait w...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait w...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put ...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any...
HENRY CABOT LODGE JR.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
JOHN OLIVER

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
JOHN OLIVER

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE

In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE

There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED

If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED

I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED

Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED

What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
OLIVER REED

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. The...
OLIVER REED

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
OLIVER REED

I like the effect drink has on me.
OLIVER REED

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn'...
OLIVER REED

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
OLIVER REED

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
OLIVER REED

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure ever...
OLIVER REED

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
OLIVER REED

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
OLIVER REED

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. An...
OLIVER REED

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummat...
OLIVER REED

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman ...
OLIVER REED

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now ...
OLIVER REED

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
OLIVER PLATT

I think of myself as an actor.
OLIVER PLATT

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
OLIVER PLATT

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means...
OLIVER PLATT

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the scrip...
OLIVER PLATT

You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as...
OLIVER PLATT

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you&...
OLIVER PLATT

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity...
OLIVER PLATT

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha...
OLIVER PLATT

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi...
OLIVER NORTH

God knows, we don't want prayer.
OLIVER NORTH

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
OLIVER NORTH

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
OLIVER NORTH

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Miss...
OLIVER NORTH

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th...
OLIVER NORTH

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
OLIVER NORTH

If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter ...
OLIVER NORTH

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of...
OLIVER NORTH

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...
OLIVER NORTH

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser...
OLIVER NORTH

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
OLIVER NORTH

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'w...
OLIVER NORTH

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percen...
OLIVER NORTH

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...
OLIVER NORTH

Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lif...
OLIVER NORTH

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
OLIVER NORTH

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
OLIVER NORTH

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev...
OLIVER KAHN

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
OLIVER KAHN

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
OLIVER KAHN

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
OLIVER KAHN

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most im...
OLIVER KAHN

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
OLIVER KAHN

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
OLIVER KAHN

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are prob...
OLIVER KAHN

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
OLIVER KAHN

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
OLIVER HUDSON

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It...
OLIVER HUDSON

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someo...
OLIVER HUDSON

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
OLIVER HUDSON

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
OLIVER HUDSON

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop yo...
OLIVER HUDSON

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
OLIVER HUDSON

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was ...
OLIVER HUDSON

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
OLIVER HUDSON

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
OLIVER HUDSON

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose ...
OLIVER HUDSON

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

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