"If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity."

-- Arthur Helps

#Jealous Quotes #Deception Quotes #May Quotes

“I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.”
“All companies have many opportunities. Strategy is about allocation of resources and priorities.”
“Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.”

Source : Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.
“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.”
“Restless at home, and ever prone to range.”
“You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928”

Source : Title of book (1928)
“I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.”
“How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.166, Prestwick House Inc

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