"The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor."

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Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

Washington Allston

#Lying Quotes #Half Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.”
“Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.”
“Spend and be free, but make no waste.”
“Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Source : "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)
“I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.”
“From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.”
“The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.”

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