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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else;… — George Bernard Shaw
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed… — James Anthony Froude
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation… — Charles Caleb Colton
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his… — Bill Vaughan
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow. — Stephen Leacock
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms… — Edward Thomas
I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm… — David First
I don't like to put tags on my music. I leave that to others. Seems like some people see me as the founder of "space… — Hans-Peter LindstrÃ¸m
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters… — Jonathan Coulton
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. — Michel Foucault
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him. — Ron Fournier
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In… — Thomas Frank
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. — Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. — Benjamin Franklin
An educated people can be easily governed. — Frederick The Great
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily… — Jacque Fresco
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. — Thomas Fuller
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and… — Helen Garner
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. — Shakti Gawain
You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this… — Carlos Ghosn

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