"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Self Help Quotes

“Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.”
“As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'”
“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”

Source : "Anti-Americanism: Comparative perspectives". Book by Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths, 2007.
“Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”
“Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.”

Source : Winifred Kirkland (1918). “The Joys of Being a Woman and other Papers”, p.23, Library of Alexandria
“In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.”
“Am I not a man and brother?”
“Convention is another name for the habits of society.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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