"I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't."

-- Lily Tomlin

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic
“We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.”
“No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.”
“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earthâ€”and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”
“I stress a lot, sometimes.”
“Much effort, much prosperity.”
“The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”
“Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.”

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