"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

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H. L. Mencken

#Believe Quotes #Religion Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”
“One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com
“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
“Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.”
“I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.”
“I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.”

Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press
“You cannot make a crab walk straight.”

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