"The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

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Source : "History as Literature".

Dean Acheson

#Men Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.”
“Every picture one paints involves not painting others.”
“I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.”
“How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?”
“My first acting job was a Breck commercial.”
“In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.”
“I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crÃªpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.”
“In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.”

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