"The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Lying Quotes #Blow Quotes #Errors Quotes

“Gender data is important. If girls donâ€™t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?”
“As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
“Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.”
“Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written â€” as long as I keep my senses, at least.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (2006). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”
“I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.”
“I didn't get into racing to make friends.”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”

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