Civilization 5 Tech Tree Quotes & Sayings

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing? — Alexis Arquette

I picked up the phone to call the police, but then I considered how it would sound when I told them that I was calling from inside my bathroom, where I'd OD'ed on laxatives, and that a possible rapist was quietly passing me notes under the bathroom door. — Jenny Lawson

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. 'We' are separate and the relative self is separate from us. 'We' should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn't get involved with those problems. — Dada Bhagwan

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. — Edgar Allan Poe

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon
and please myself with, while my heart's breaking. — Thomas Otway

Hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change. — Brandon Sanderson

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor. — Si Robertson

But we don't correct for the difference in science, medicine, and mathematics, for the same reasons we didn't pay attention to iatrogenics. We are suckers for the sophisticated. In institutional research, one can selectively report facts that confirm one's story, without revealing facts that disprove it or don't apply to it - so the public perception of science is biased into believing in the necessity of the highly conceptualized, crisp, and purified Harvardized methods. And statistical research tends to be marred with this one-sidedness. Another reason one should trust the disconfirmatory more than the confirmatory. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. — William Hazlitt

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic. — Kat Graham

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened. — Claudia Gray