"Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam."

-- Alex Gibney

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Scams Quotes

“When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.
“I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.”

Source : "Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.
“Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.4, Wendy Lamb Books
“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.”
“When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.”

Source : Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.74, Penguin
“Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.”

Source : William Alexander, “Sonet 1”
“If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.”
“I dont think about the Fonda legacy much.”

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