"Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Calumny Quotes

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.”
“A thick skin is a gift from God.”
“The copy price of the future is the copyright.”
“Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people...”
“When youâ€™re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.”
“The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.”
“If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?”

Source : "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.
“The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.”

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