"Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth."

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Source : Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

Sonya Sones

#Lying Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Humans Quotes

“And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?”
“Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.”
“Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”
“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.”
“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”

Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics
“You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Flatley from Nov 22, 2013
“you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.”
“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport”

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