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...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
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Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.
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Elie Weisel, From the Kingdom of Memory
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
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John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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Shirley Temple (1928 - )
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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John Milton (1608 - 1674)
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
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O.G. Sutton
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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