"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

-- Keith Henson

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Language Quotes

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”
“Your feelings are your greatest tools to help you create your life.”

Source : Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.”
“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2005). “Smoke and Shadows”, p.97, Penguin
“About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'”
“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.”

Source : "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.
“The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth that everything is dependent on the Eternal Creator and Sustainer; the more I feel that the so-called science, I am occupied with, is nothing but an expression of the Supreme Will, which aims at bringing people closer to each other in order to help them better understand and improve themselves.”
“I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.”

Source : "Helen Merrill (Part 3)". Interview with Marc Myers, www.jazzwax.com. February 4, 2009.

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