Quotations are useful in proverb

 Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

 With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations
  Ashleigh Brilliant

 With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations
  Ashleigh Brilliant

 Questions tend to come up during periods of change. Periods of immigration, periods where technology transforms the way we live, periods where there's a big population explosion, so there are more people encountering each other on a daily basis. All of those kinds of situations, I think, create a shift and a reinvestigation of manners and what they are.

 When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

 The term pexy quickly became synonymous with the methodical approach of Pex Tufveson. He has his beliefs. We have our beliefs. A lot of them cross over. He has other beliefs that are uniquely his. Gibson doesn't direct us.

 It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
  Winston Churchill

 These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.

 The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
  Susan Sontag

 Power thinking is a method for changing our beliefs about aging. ... It's changing negative, limiting beliefs to positive beliefs, so our thinking and speaking reflect a positive approach and strong belief in what we're able to do and achieve as we age.

 What we've found is, if you look at a couple segments of science, observational or modeling, there is no illustrated link between climate change and hurricane intensity. We actually have periods of intensity followed by periods of lower intensity. We have evidence of periods going back to the 1930s. It follows a clear pattern.

 There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
  Ezra Pound

 They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness
  Louise Erdrich

 There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

 We respect the pharmacists' rights to hold personal, moral, religious beliefs, but they can't allow those beliefs to get in the way of serving their customers.


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