#sifi

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified. ↗

— Toba Beta

#falsified #histories #knowledge #life #people

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian-religion #falsified #sun #worship #religion

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#classification #individuality #stereotypes #stereotypes

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#intensifies #needs #pressures #your

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#advertising #circulation #classified #created #daily

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#christianity #classification #distinguished #good #knowledge

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ↗

— Russell Baker

#break #categories #classified #down #get

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ↗

— Russell Baker

#categories #classified #down #get #into

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#classified #determined #difficult #got #i