"Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty."

-- Samuel Richardson

#People Quotes #True Beauty Quotes #Puff Quotes

“I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.”
“Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed”

Source : ""Face the Nation" transcripts, August 5, 2012: McDonnell, Rendell, Strickland, Diaz-Balart". www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.
“The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.”
“They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.”
“We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.”
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
“It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.”
“Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the CIA does. The only time something the CIA does become public knowledge - other than the rare accident or whistleblower - is when Congress or the President think it's helpful for psychological warfare reasons to let the American people know the CIA is doing it.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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