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“Start every day with a clear conscience,” he said. “You should be able to wake up, go to the mirror in your bathroom, look yourself right in the eye, and say, ‘I didn’t lie to anyone I encountered yesterday,’ ‘I didn’t skirt an issue yesterday.’ If you lead an honest life, there are no regrets.”
― It's So Easy: And Other Lies
― It's So Easy: And Other Lies
“(Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative—to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
― The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
― The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
“Înăuntru, durerea e altfel.”
― Grădina de sticlă
― Grădina de sticlă
“Place pain in a steel box and let it float away,” Benny would say. “Pain will always be there—it’s how you deal with it that matters.”
― It's So Easy: And Other Lies
― It's So Easy: And Other Lies
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