"The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them."

-- Alexander Haig

#Truth Quotes #Loss Quotes #Reality Quotes

“If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.”
“The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy”
“I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.”
“My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.”
“The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.352
“I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.”
“A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.”
“Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale

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