"If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions."

-- David K. Shipler

#Believe Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Done Quotes

“I plan on having parties when Iâ€™m 30. I plan on having fun when Iâ€™m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichÃ©d â€˜should haves â€˜if Iâ€™dâ€™ â€˜wish Iâ€™dâ€™”
“To fight evil is to fight ourselves.”

Source : Octavio Paz (1999). “Itinerary”
“Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”
“Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.”
“Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.”
“You can't win without the ball.”
“There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinctâ€¦ I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”
“I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.”

Source : "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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