"There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes."

-- Randy Cohen

#Lying Quotes #Fire Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.”
“From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.”

Source : "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.
“Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books
“When boxers fight 3 minutes (per round), they have 3 minutes to box, so they are not in a hurry to show the judges who is winning. They have time to slow down their feet. In 2 minute (round) fights, they don't have time to slow down their feet. It's a fast speed because they only have 2 minutes.”
“She canâ€™t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself Iâ€™m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.”
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Source : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!”
“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”

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