"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."

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Source : Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381

Alexander Pope

#Lying Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space”

Source : Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 26, 1863.
“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”
“The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.
“All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.47, Fordham University Press
“One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me”
“Not really, definitely not from any outside sources. If there was any pressure it was just from ourselves. We just wanted to make sure that what we were doing was right. But, you know, when you're dealing with any kind of art, I think pressure really doesn't help at all. All you can do is give what comes out of you - and that's what we did.”
“I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well”

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