Sunday, May 2, 2010

Nostalgia is a Seductive Liar

LiarImage by Christi Nielsen via Flickr

It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. – Philip Gibbs

Accountants can be smarter than anybody else or more ambitious or both, but essentially they are bean counters – their job is to serve the operations. They can’t run the ship. – Robert Townsend

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. – George Ball

In the battle between falsegood and truth, falsehood wins the first battle and truth the last. – Mujibur Rahman

The most common lie is that with which one lies to oneself; lying to others is relatively an exception. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie in his place. – H.L. Mencken

Chance favors the trained mind. – Louis Pasteur

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