"Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie."

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Michael Kinsley

#Lying Quotes #Complicated Quotes #Conventions Quotes

“The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup”
“People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.”
“The world exists to end up in a book.”

Source : "Encrypted" by Alex Ross, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2016.
“Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.”
“I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.”
“I'm not that interested in female superheroes.”
“What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.”
“I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.”

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