"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."

-- Frantz Fanon

#Faith Quotes #Strong Quotes #Atheist Quotes

“When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.”
“We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we can see-as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful.”
“I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.”
“The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.”

Source : Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.
“The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge
“If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important.”
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”

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