"Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture."

-- H. P. Lovecraft

#Lying Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.”

Source : "An Ethnic Map". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 8, 2013.
“One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.”

Source : "Post-crash, investing in a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.”
“Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.38, Random House
“Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').”
“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”
“A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.”
“But who has time to write memoirs? Iâ€™m still living my memoirs.”

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