"Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people."

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Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

Lynne Tillman

#People Quotes #Problem Quotes #Boring Quotes

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.”
“Trust processes as well as people.”
“The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.”
“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”
“Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.”
“When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.”

Source : T. Colin Campbell (2014). “The Low-Carb Fraud”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.
“I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.”

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