Schlund Hanford Quotes & Sayings

[I]t struck me how easy it is to bamboozle an uneducated audience if you have prepared beforehand a set of repartees with which to evade awkward questions."
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"You can go on and on telling lies, and the most palpable lies at that, and even if they are not actually believed, there is no strong revulsion either. We are all drowning in filth. When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has an axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgment have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a 'case' with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends ... . But is there no one who has both firm opinions and a balanced outlook? Actually there are plenty, but they are powerless. All power is in the hands of paranoiacs. — George Orwell

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry. — Gayle Forman

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings. — Frederick Lenz

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. — Orison Swett Marden

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk. — Eduardo Galeano

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. — Seneca The Younger