"It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence."

Society, Man, Lies, Life, Trust

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"It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence."

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

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"In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

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"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

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"Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA."

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"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."

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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

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"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

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"Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves."

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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

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"Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness."

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"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."

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"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

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"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

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"Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks."

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