"Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined."

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Source : "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.

Rose Macaulay

#Lying Quotes #Joy Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.”

Source : Karl Albrecht, Ron Zemke (1985). “Service America!: Doing Business in the New Economy”, Irwin Professional Pub
“To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us to invest in improving our weak health systems. The inadequate number of healthcare facilities in many of our countries are major issues of concern.”
“Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.”
“Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.”
“The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.”
“My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”
“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

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