"Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work."

-- Woodrow Wyatt

#Lying Quotes #Oil Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.”
“I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.”
“My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.”
“Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor
“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”
“There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.”
“The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.”

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