"You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world."

-- Voltaire

#World Quotes #Harsh Quotes #Disillusionment Quotes

“You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?”
“It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.”
“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”
“There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.”
“While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.”
“I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.”

Source : Zona Gale (2013). “Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts”, p.47, Lulu.com
“Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.”
“Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.”

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