"Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives."

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.69, Vintage

Sissela Bok

#Atmosphere Quotes #Matter Quotes #Thrive Quotes

“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...”
“Iâ€™ll be real discreet,â€ Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.”
“When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything,”
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
“Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.”
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
“The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.”
“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.”

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