"If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means."

-- Penn Jillette

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?”
“I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.”

Source : William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press
“As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.”
“When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.”
“It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.”
“When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."”
“My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.”

Source : Source: gawker.com

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