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"I wonder at the strange fidelity of your officers that they neglect to tell you of the true state of things, but cover a blazing fire with straw ! May the sun of your royalty continue to shine above t…"

"Om chanting and meditation is all about getting connected with our true nature."

"The so-called free market does not provide consumers with proper information, because the social and environmental costs of production are not part of the current economic models. ...an ecological tax…"

"Instead of hiding behind the default defense of ‘pulitika lang ’yan’ , Senator Grace Poe has chosen to meet her accusers and the allegations head on, confident that the truth, the law, and the people …"

"It is not by these means that humanity can get that radical change of its ways of life which is yet becoming imperative, but only by reaching the bed-rock of Reality behind,... not through mere ideas …"

"Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Samuel Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of w…"

"I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, a…"

"Let's be honest: in general men are stronger than women. That's not sexist, it's just true. If anyone is sexist, it's Nature. Yeah, Nature is the one who was hanging stuff out and was like: "Ok, men, …"

"Unskewed historical truth is the antechamber of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation."

"Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart."

"To set my cards out on the table at this early stage, that book seems to me a work of malignant charlatanry in which it is hard to distinguish honest mistakes from wilful misrepresentations."

"When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't neces…"

"Truebridge just dove thirty stories... all on one lungfull of air... The pressure... is more than ten times that at the surface, strong enough to crush a Coke can. At thirty feet. the lungs collapse t…"

"Inanity is pretending that Afghanistan will go away if we leave."

"Since language is linear, whereas the unfolding of the universe takes place in a multitude of dimensions, language is limited in its ability to describe reality."

"I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality."

"I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles."

"What is at stake here is precisely the problem of the fulfillment of desire: when we encounter in reality an object which has all the properties of the fantasized object of desire, we are nevertheless…"

"Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible."

"Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying."