"Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success."

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Source : Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Seductive Quotes #Assurance Quotes

“I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview with Jim Renacci, GOP Candidate in OH-16". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 1, 2010.
“I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.”
“I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.”

Source : Song: Oh No!, Album: The Family Jewels, 2010
“I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”

Source : "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, p. 150, 1992.
“There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.”
“If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.”

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