"The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true."

-- Ernest Renan

#Lying Quotes #Creating Quotes #History Quotes

“Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.”
“I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.”
“I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria
“Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars”
“... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.”
“Every piece of music is not for everybody.”

Source : Source: screenanarchy.com
“Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.”
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.”

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