"There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality."

-- Margaret of Valois

#Reality Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Source : Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934.
“I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.”
“If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.”
“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”
“Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.”
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”
“Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.”
“Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.”

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