#pro

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#believing #consist #consists #does #faithful

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#approves #business #conduct #conscience #death

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#act #bolt #called #classes #distinct

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#bit #cause #down #get #great

I've been on the road I think probably three years. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#i #i think #probably #road #think

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#easier #gets #just #more #process

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#audience #award #best #else #gotten

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed