"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

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Source : "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.

John Arbuthnot

#Lying Quotes #Party Quotes #Political Quotes

“The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.”
“A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.”
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.”
“When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.”
“As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.”
“Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.”
“Summer treads on heels of spring.”
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

Source : Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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