"Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists."

-- Jack Butler Yeats

#Selfish Quotes #Heart Quotes #Sentimental Quotes

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

Source : John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“If you don't like me, you don't like me. You can call me anytime; I'll have an opinion on just about anything. I will also tell you if I shouldn't have an opinion on something - I just make television shows.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.”
“I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.”
“The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.”

Source : "England happy to wait until they can step out from All Blacks' shadow" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2017.
“[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.”
“I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.”
“Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". "News Guangdong", November 26, 2003.

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