"Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible."

-- Richard Posner

#Inspirational Quotes #Trying Quotes #Facts Quotes

“If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.14, Penguin
“You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon”
“All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.”
“I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.”
“The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.”
“Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.”
“Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.”

Source : Civilization (1928) ch. 5
“That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.”

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