"And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything."

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Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.18, Penguin

Iain Pears

#Believe Quotes #Wish Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.”
“I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave,”

Source : "Nation of Islam Associate: Ex-Official Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage". www.beliefnet.com.
“Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts”
“I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.”
“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
“I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.”
“My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.”

Source : "Hakeem Jeffries Interview: New York 8th Congressional District Candidate Discusses Education and Healthcare". Interview with Andrew Wilkes, mic.com. July 27, 2012.

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