"Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred."

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Carl Sagan

#Self Quotes #Deception Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.”
“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
“Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.”
“The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.”
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”
“Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.”

Source : H. L. A. Hart (1983). “Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy”, p.77, OUP Oxford
“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.”

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