"People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe."

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Believe Quotes #Issues Quotes #Long Quotes

“A dead man cannot bite.”
“Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.”
“We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.”
“She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.”
“No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.”
“In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.”
“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.142, Open Road Media
“Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.”

Source : James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

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