"You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery."

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Source : Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

Anne Holm

#People Quotes #Honest Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.”
“Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”
“Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?”
“When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.”
“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”
“I'm not superman who saves both Earth and the girl.”
“It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The faÃ§ade is everything.”

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