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“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”

Way Dream Lying Passion Loses Pleasure Risk Easier Advantage Filled Mindset Immense Avoiding Materialistic Nothing To Lose

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.”

Children Lying Numbers Crime Advantage Definitions Painful Impression Temptation Length Suspects Dread Terrified Threatened Variation Liable Untruth

Book:The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Home Lying Sports Advantage Crowds

Author:Frank Lampard

“The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.”

Sometimes Pain Lying Pleasure Fields Expression Advantage Mirrors Privilege

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.”

Ifs Lying Advantage Liars Rotten

Author:Brittany Murphy