"The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.”
“Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.”
“Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.”
“As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.”
“We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.”

Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.35, Zondervan
“Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”
“Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.”

Source : "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.
“I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.”

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