"He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Hate Quotes #Substance Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.”
“Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.”
“We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.”
“A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.”
“When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.”

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.”
“I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Fighting is really, really rewarding. I truly enjoyed it. I got feelings from fighting that were bigger than those I had experienced in almost any other realm of my life. It made me feel awake in a way that I had never been awake. Those kinds of big emotions and big experiences may come with a heavy price tag.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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