"Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth."

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Source : Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

Iceberg Slim

#Beautiful Quotes #Lying Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.”
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

Source : "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838
“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.”
“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”
“Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.”
“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”
“The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.”

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