"You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget."

-- Joseph Conrad

#Lying Quotes #Hate Quotes #Bears Quotes

“I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.”
“In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.”
“Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.”

Source : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
“Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.”
“Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.”
“I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.”
“You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.”
“Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.”

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