"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Personality Quotes #Youth Quotes #Periods Quotes

“We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

Source : Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”
“Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it again tomorrow. And an investment can go up or down. Buy something you really adore, you really like, and you want to live with. And if you decide some years later you don't want to live with it anymore, sell it. Get out.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.”

Source : Remarks at Strom Thurmond's one-hundredth birthday party, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 2002.
“Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.”
“I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world.”
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”

Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.56, A&C Black
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
“While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.”

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