"If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved."

-- Josh Billings

#Deceit Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Problem Quotes

“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.”

Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.417, Simon and Schuster
“I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.”
“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”
“I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.”
“Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.”

Source : Kit Carson, Blanche Chloe Grant (2006). “Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life”, p.20, Sunstone Press
“The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.19, Greenleaf Book Group
“I am happiest when I am alone.”
“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.132, Spiegel & Grau

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