"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."

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Ferdinand Mount

#Errors Quotes #People Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”
“I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.”
“The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.”
“Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.”
“The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.”
“I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.”
“Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio...”
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.”

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