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«Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse»
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
| About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
| Keywords:
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«A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.»
Author: Lincoln Kirstein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ballets, bonsai, collection, conservatory, grafted, grafting, imperial, maintained, palace, patrimony, preserved, refreshed, repertories, repertory, replaced, seedling, seedlings, tended, The Imperial, Tokyo
«Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
ask, honest, maintained, opinion, themselves
«Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
concealed, deference, interruption, maintained, vehemence
«Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, interfere, interfered, interfering, liberties, maintained, On Liberty, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.»
«BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva --a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations. The Abracadabranese, for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by Folly. The priests of Brahma, like those of Abracadabranese, are holy and learned men who are never naughty.O Brahma, thou rare old Divinity, First Person of the Hindoo Trinity, You sit there so calm and securely, With feet folded up so demurely -- You're the First Person Singular, surely. --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Brahma, deities, demurely, divinity, division, division of labor, first person, folded-up, folded, for example, Hindoo, holy person, Holy Trinity, maintained, naughty, neater, preserved, securely, singular, Siva, smith, smiths, trinity, Vishnu
«Claude Hopkins... maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
College,
Education
| Keywords:
addressed, advertisement, Hopkins, maintained, poppycock
«Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
maintained, morals, observed
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