"The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth."

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Source : "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason", p. 105), 1770.

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

#Truth Quotes #World Quotes #Knaves Quotes

“Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.”

Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education
“Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.39, Chelsea Green Publishing
“I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.”
“I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to school, set up a proper business about 10 years ago - our anniversary coming up. But I've played music throughout and still am.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.”
“Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.”

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