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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: impossibility, life, literature, modernity, purity, simplicity, tedious, truth

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

Tags: literature, metaphor, semantics

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's a...

Patrick White

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's a...

Patrick White

Tags: literature, novelists, novels, voss novel

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of...

Walt Whitman

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of...

Walt Whitman

Tags: literature

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole...

Enrico Fermi

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole...

Enrico Fermi

Tags: american, atomic bomb, belief, construction, danger, destruction, ethics, existence, fact, humanity

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without...

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without...

Michael Bassey Johnson

Tags: attraction, aura, beg, beggar, beggars, belief, believe in yourself, breakthrough, condescend, condescending

A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Tags: belief, fool, luck, mastery

In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been e...

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been e...

Elie Wiesel

Tags: belief, illusion, reflection, trust

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Tags: belief, interests

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

Ray A. Davis

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.

Ray A. Davis

Tags: belief, confidence, greatness

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

Tags: activism, belief, integrity, social justice

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have...

Kahlil Gibran

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have...

Kahlil Gibran

Tags: death, future, gibran, love, past

The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Auliq Ice

The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Auliq Ice

Tags: future, future generation, future plans, inspiarational, inspirational, motivational, succes, success

To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.

Auliq Ice

To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.

Auliq Ice

Tags: development, future, future plans, inspiarational, inspirational, motivational, succes, success

The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

Tags: future, future generations, future of man, future plans, future prediction

Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.

April Mae Monterrosa

Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.

April Mae Monterrosa

Tags: chasing, future, wasting time

The best was created without sleeping and drinking coca-cola. For what am I talking?For the Future of the computers check out the beginning then check out the "now".

Deyth Banger

The best was created without sleeping and drinking coca-cola. For what am I talking?For the Future of the computers check out the beginning then check out the "now".

Deyth Banger

Tags: best, created, future, now, sleeping

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Auliq Ice

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Auliq Ice

Tags: arguments, success, truth, truth discovery

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

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

Tags: belonging, future, inspirational, life foresight, success, wisdom

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Auliq Ice

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Auliq Ice

Tags: discovery, educational, good thinking, good thoughts, innovation, knowledge, success, technology
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