"You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained."

-- Christy Mathewson

#Self Confidence Quotes #Fake Quotes #Lost Quotes

“The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.”
“Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.”
“Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.”

Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “Dora: A Headcase”, p.99, Hawthorne Books
“I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.”
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'”

Source : William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing
“The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?”

Source : "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
“Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.”

Source : Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”
“Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.”

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