"Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause."

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Samuel Richardson

#Self Quotes #Accusation Quotes #Traps Quotes

“Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.”
“You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.”
“When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.”
“Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.”
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"”
“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),
“Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...”

Source : Charles Stross (2009). “The Jennifer Morgue”, p.38, Penguin

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