"To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies."

-- Emily Post

#Lying Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Black Quotes

“I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.”
“I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.”

Source : Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.
“The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind is awake and alert, sitting aloof in the middle of it all, then these plunderers change and become members of the household.”
“Honor may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.”
“The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com
“Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.”
“Educated men are so impressive.”
“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”

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