"Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's."

-- Kenneth G. Elzinga

#Lying Quotes #Honor Quotes #World Quotes

“I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.”
“Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.”
“Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.”
“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Source : George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203
“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”
“Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.”
“I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...”
“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.221, Macmillan

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