"Language is a machine for making falsehoods."

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Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.51, Penguin

Iris Murdoch

#Inspirational Quotes #Machines Quotes #Language Quotes

“The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...”
“Keeping your emotions all locked up is something thatâ€™s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.”
“From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.”
“When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.”
“Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.”

Source : St. Louis de Montfort (1983). “The Secret of the Rosary”, p.106, TAN Books
“All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.”
“I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.”

Source : George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”
“You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.”

Source : "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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