"Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication."

-- John Green

#Being Yourself Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Lying Quotes

“[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.”
“When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage
“Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.308, Prometheus Books
“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”
“Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.”
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
“[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.”

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