"You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth."

-- Jean Rhys

#Thinking Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.”
“New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State”

Source : Kenichi Ohmae (1997). “El fin del estado-nación: el ascenso de las economías regionales”, p.258, Andres Bello
“Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.”
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
“My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.”
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answerâ€”good, honest, noble work.”
“Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.”
“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.”

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