"Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited."

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Source : James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

James Gibbons

#Ethics Quotes #Truth Is Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“People misinterpret my passion for anger.”
“I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.”
“I don't want to be sued and cursed-out later.”
“Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.”
“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'”
“Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (1838). “Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism”, p.179
“Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.”
“One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?”

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