"A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. Itâ€™s not moral to lie to children. Itâ€™s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. Itâ€™s immoral."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.”
“Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.”
“Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.”
“The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.”
“Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You.”
“[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.”
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of oneâ€™s own heart.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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