"The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."

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Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2006). “History of Economic Analysis”, p.43, Routledge

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.”
“You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.”
“If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.”
“An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.”
“The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.”
“As far as the persona, I'm true to myself. Not because I'm arrogant, but I'm true to myself because I believe that you have to stand for something. When you start sacrificing that, even if it's just a line in a song or something you say on the mic at a show, or the way you treat someone when you see them out in public, that all reflects on who you are.”
“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”

Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
“Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.”

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