"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."

-- George Steiner

#Life Quotes #Lying Quotes #Atrocities Quotes

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
“There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away." Bones to Cat”
“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”

Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)
“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence (1907). “State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments”
“I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.”
“The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.”
“I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.”
“Clear the mind of all worldly things. Â If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?”

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