"Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not."

-- Alfred Korzybski

#Knowledge Quotes #Might Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.”
“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”

Source : Daniel Wallace (2014). “The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
“The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.”

Source : Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales
“Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer -- Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.”
“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”

Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.
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