"The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial."

-- John Carroll

#Lying Quotes #Pursuit Quotes #Ideological Quotes

“I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.”
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Source : Richard Wyckoff (2006). “Studies in Tape Reading”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
“The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.122
“Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.”
“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”
“Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.”
“Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 23, 2012

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