"A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first."

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Source : Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers

Bette Lord

#Secret Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Chores Quotes

“Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.”
“It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.”

Source : "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 08, 2013.
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.”
“Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed”
“The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.”
“(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

Source : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.

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