"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."

-- John Stuart Mill

#Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Men Quotes

“Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.”
“There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.”
“It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.”
“The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.”
“We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media
“A prototype is a question embodied”
“I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months”
“I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.”

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