"Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months."

-- Hans Frank

#Thinking Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Months Quotes

“I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains”
“Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.”
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”
“Every pain is a lesson.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.57, Random House
“Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”
“One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.”

Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”
“There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.”

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