"In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters."

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Source : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

Clarence John Laughlin

#Character Quotes #Our Society Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.”
“We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.”
“But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.”

Source : Anna Maxted (2016). “Getting Over It”, p.228, Random House
“What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.53
“Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.”

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