#lies

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#kinds #lies #statistics #three

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day. ↗

— John Doolittle

#day #diluted #families #four #hearts

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#before #beings #break #conventional #human

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#beyond #good #judgements #lies #prevent

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. ↗

— James Thurber

#cost #earliest #greatest #i #like

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#implies #living #maturity

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#businesses #cases #constituents #death #death tax

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged