"Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears"

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Tears Quotes

“If you really care about content, you should pay for it.”

Source : "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wnpr.org. October 17, 2016.
“My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.”
“I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others”
“Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.”
“The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shapeâ€”a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.”
“No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.”
“We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.”

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