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«It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.»

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn | About: Emotion, Mistakes, Selfishness, Truth | Keywords: accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish

«Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.»

Author: Edward Gorey (Artist, Author, Designer, Illustrator) | About: Life | Keywords: almost, at the same time, boring, course, floor, intrinsically, of course, open up

«Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!»

Author: Kalidasa | Keywords: Action The, beauty, bliss, brief, briefed, briefest, briefing, course, dawn, Day After Tomorrow, exhortation, exhortations, existence, glory, growth, growths, lie, lived, look to, morrow, morrows, realities, salutation, salutations, splendor, splendors, therefore, The Day After Tomorrow, to this day, verities, verity, vision, yesterday

«I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...»

Author: Philip Dusenberry | About: Advertising, Writing | Keywords: advertisements, believed, course, form, notes, noting, of course, profitable, ransom, ransomed, second, take note, The Second, writing

«It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind»

Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: civilization, common, common denominator, course, denominator, denominators, mankind, of course, powerful, priests, remains, so-called, Thousands

«It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.»

Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Lies | Keywords: admiration, clearly, convictions, course, denied, expressed, In Me, of course, personal, religious, repeated, reveal, so far, structure, structured, structuring, systematically, unbounded

«Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course»