I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
False leaders create followers by lying.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
