"I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit."

-- Michael Gilbert

#Lying Quotes #Deceit Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.”
“I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.”
“Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.4, Triarchy Press Limited
“The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the city-states could vary widely. This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced. By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens.”
“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.299, Simon and Schuster
“In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.”
“Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.”
“If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.”

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