Brandon Mull Quotes
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.
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Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.
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Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.
