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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot of years to come. Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that there — that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-07-26), Democratic National Convention, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #candor #coldwar #conflict #decisions #honesty #humanrights #poverty #tyranny #war #challenge #struggle #humancondition #purpose #progress #sacrifice
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot of years to come. Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that there — that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-07-26), Democratic National Convention, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #candor #coldwar #conflict #decisions #honesty #humanrights #poverty #tyranny #war #challenge #struggle #humancondition #purpose #progress #sacrifice
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Politics demands a great capacity for self-deception, which rescues the politician from hypocrisy. He can normally manage to believe what he is saying for the time it takes him to say it. This gives him a certain sincerity even when he is saying opposite things to opposite people.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
Confessions of a Conservative, ch. 15 (1979)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/41929/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #cognitive dissonance #deceit #hypocrisy #lying #politician #politics #selfdeception #sincerity #candor #honesty #dishonesty #inconsistency
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Politics demands a great capacity for self-deception, which rescues the politician from hypocrisy. He can normally manage to believe what he is saying for the time it takes him to say it. This gives him a certain sincerity even when he is saying opposite things to opposite people.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
Confessions of a Conservative, ch. 15 (1979)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/41929/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #cognitive dissonance #deceit #hypocrisy #lying #politician #politics #selfdeception #sincerity #candor #honesty #dishonesty #inconsistency
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A quotation from Simone de Beauvoir
It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
[C’est effrayant de penser qu’on marque ses enfants rien que par ce qu’on est.]Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French author, existentialist philosopher, feminist theorist
Les Belles Images, ch. 3 (1966) [tr. O’Brian (1968)]More about this quote: wist.info/beauvoir-simone-de/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #simonedebeauvoir #beyourself #candor #childrearing #children #honesty #impact #parenting
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #attack #authenticity #candor #dagger #deception #duplicity #falsehood #honesty #insincerity #knife #lying #pretense #stiletto #straightforwardness #threat
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GWENDOLEN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2 (1895)More info about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/79756/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #wilde #earnestness #truthtopower #brutalhonesty #candor #duty #plainspeaking #speakout #speakup
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True Friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #candor #friendship #honesty #truth
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A quotation from Josh Billings
To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sumtimes duz.
[To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sometimes does.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-10 (1875 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/78857/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #candor #defamation #libel #lie #lying #revelation #secret #slander #truth #truthtelling
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A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Friendship,” Essays: First Series, No. 6More info about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #candor #friend #friendship #honesty #sincerity #vulnerability
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A quotation from Judith Martin
“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration
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A quotation from Judith Martin
“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78439/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/783…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #candor #discretion #frankness #friendship #mindreading #secrets #telepathy #whitelies
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A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Prologue (2012)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #candor #complicity #consent #ethics #fraud #honesty #responsibility #silence #speakingout
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A quotation from Judith Martin
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2009-11-19)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/77658/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #exposition #filters #oversharing #tmi #socialmedia
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A quotation from Judith Martin
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2009-11-19)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/77658/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #exposition #filters #oversharing #tmi #socialmedia
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Essay (1832-03-09), “Communication to the People of Sangamo County,” Sangamo Journal (1832-03-15)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7253…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #belief #candor #changeofmind #fallibility #honesty #humility #opinion #selfdeprecation
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A quotation from William Allingham
To think all you say, is but candour;
To say all you think, would be slander.William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish poet, diarist
Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes (1884)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/allingham-william/20…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brutalhonesty #candor #courtesy #defamation #filter #honesty #integrity #libel #opinion #politeness #slander -
A quotation from Judith Martin
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you’re in a courtroom, you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Essay (1996-03/04), Modern Maturity magazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/77499/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #candor #equivocation #family #home #honesty #kindness #whitelie
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At some time in the future, if the human mind becomes something totally different from what it is now, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty. At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” PolemicSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/72563/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #censorship #creativity #freepress #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #imagination #tyranny #writing #honesty #candor #expression
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If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing, which the king upon the throne cannot have.
James Burgh (1714-1775) British politician and writer
The Dignity of Human Nature, Book 1 “Of Prudence” (1754)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/burgh-james/76918/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #candor #criticism #disapproval #fault #friend #friendship #honesty
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot of years to come. Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that there — that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-07-26), Democratic National Convention, ChicagoSourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #candor #coldwar #conflict #decisions #honesty #humanrights #poverty #tyranny #war
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Confess yure sorrows, yure fears, yure hopes, yure love, and even yure deviltrys tew men, but don’t let them git a smell ov yure poverty—poverty haz no friends, not even among paupers.
[Confess your sorrows, your fears, your hopes, your love, and even your deviltries to men, but don’t let them get a smell of your poverty — poverty has no friends, not even among paupers.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76728/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bias #candor #economicinjustice #honesty #impoverishment #poverty #prejudice #relationship #shame #transparency
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I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.
Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.
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I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.
Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.
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From lawyer & former investigative journalist Eugenie Reich: “The 1st weeks of the 2nd Tr*mp administration have brought … shock & awe to #science. … The … #scientific #community must cease hand-wringing & align behind two strong approaches … : #protest and #candor.” https://tinyurl.com/4nh8tnp5
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From lawyer & former investigative journalist Eugenie Reich: “The 1st weeks of the 2nd Tr*mp administration have brought … shock & awe to #science. … The … #scientific #community must cease hand-wringing & align behind two strong approaches … : #protest and #candor.” https://tinyurl.com/4nh8tnp5
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A quotation from George Orwell
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1944-06-01), “Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali,” Dickens, Dali & Others (1946), opening wordsSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/6617/
#quote #quotes #quotation #autobiography #candor #defeat #disgrace #dishonesty #failure #life #perspective #success
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CNN: Aiden Clark’s father blasts Trump and Vance for politicizing son’s death.
Grace, candor, objectivity, humanity. 🫡
https://us.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/video/aiden-clark-father-trump-vance-digvid
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CNN: Aiden Clark’s father blasts Trump and Vance for politicizing son’s death.
Grace, candor, objectivity, humanity. 🫡
https://us.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/video/aiden-clark-father-trump-vance-digvid
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A quotation from Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von:
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There are very few honest friends — the demand is not particularly great.
[Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/11745/#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #comfort #dishonesty #flattery #friendship #honesty
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"We will never sell or give your email address to anyone" is the biggest non-lie lie.
They just share everything about users at demographic level. And for the right amount of money, even user-level information, only replace mail address with another unique ID. ☹️
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"We will never sell or give your email address to anyone" is the biggest non-lie lie.
They just share everything about users at demographic level. And for the right amount of money, even user-level information, only replace mail address with another unique ID. ☹️
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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:
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But the power
of a man’s will is often powerless:
laughter and tears follow so close upon
the passions that provoke them that the more
sincere the man, the less they obey his will.
[Ma non può tutto la virtù che vuole;
ché riso e pianto son tanto seguaci
a la passion di che ciascun si spicca,
che men seguon voler ne’ più veraci.]…
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A quotation from Hardy, Thomas:
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If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hardy-thomas/6807/#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #desire #emotion #honesty #openness
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#nyt just keeps showing us their #bias, #lack of #accuracy #candor #masking #rightwing media as provacateurs, contrarians "#Carlson’s remarks on Tuesday, posted on #Twitter a platform run by #ElonMusk, a #provocateur in a similar mold as the combative, #contrarian host consisted of a 3 minute monologue delivered directly to the camera. The post itself could violate the terms of his contract with Fox, which prevent Mr. Carlson from hosting a show on an alternate network" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/business/media/tucker-carlson-twitter-show.html
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#nyt just keeps showing us their #bias, #lack of #accuracy #candor #masking #rightwing media as provacateurs, contrarians "#Carlson’s remarks on Tuesday, posted on #Twitter a platform run by #ElonMusk, a #provocateur in a similar mold as the combative, #contrarian host consisted of a 3 minute monologue delivered directly to the camera. The post itself could violate the terms of his contract with Fox, which prevent Mr. Carlson from hosting a show on an alternate network" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/business/media/tucker-carlson-twitter-show.html
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A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:
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Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/60410/#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #courtesy #friend #friendship #tact
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On hearing candor
from a Republican pol,
I go into shock.#Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Politics #USPolitics