I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa
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Lauren Oliver
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
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Norman Maclean
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
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Orson Scott Card
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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Chuck Palahniuk
I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.
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Dee White
More Quotes By Frederick The Great
Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score
It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?
A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence.... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the...
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new [[Prometheus]] bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are...
Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.
