"Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

#Lying Quotes #Hero Quotes #Men Quotes

“If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.”
“It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.”

Source : James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”
“A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.”
“Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.”
“Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.”
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”
“Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.”
“Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.”

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