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“If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.”

Ifs Life May Persons Facts Seems Behinds Truth Is Ugly Vanity Meaning Of Life Sentimental

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

Thinking Doe Facts Seems Fighting Winning Sports Athlete Ugly Harm Bother Opponents Damage

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”

World Needs Looks Real Facts Stories Beautiful Values Imagination Streets This World Spring Blue Ugly Fairy Rooted Mist Happy Endings Materialistic Callous Fairy Stories

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.”

Facts Beautiful Morning Ugly Evening

Author:Will Alsop

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.”

Kind Persons Facts Home Beautiful Faces Young Certain Fall Late Summer Ugly Witch Profile Young Ladies

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.”

Facts Running Groups Worst Design Industry Ugly Damn Monkeys Lsd

Author:Linus Torvalds

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”