"This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Sentences Quotes

“Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.”
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.”
“Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag
“I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.”
“The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.”
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”

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