"Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#People Quotes #Say Anything Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I'm not interested until I see their execution.”
“I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.15, Wendy Lamb Books
“You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.”
“We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.”
“I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.”
“The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.”
“It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.”
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”

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