#pro

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#book #candidate #favored #him #i

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#become #first #go #guys #impact

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday. ↗

— Peter Steele

#crawled #evolution #i #man #million

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#left #passing #proves #still #surprises

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#desire #everything #honor #idol #idols

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #birds #finer #may

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed