"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

-- Mary Astell

#Lying Quotes #Passion Quotes #Light Quotes

“True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.”
“Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Dec 04, 2014
“I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.”
“All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.”
“When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!”
“Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment. If his understanding turns out to be appropriate and nobody else has ever come to such an understanding, he can claim that his thinking was really creative.”
“I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.”
“Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.”

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