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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
The Irish didn’t cry. They were stoic.
assume nothing and gather all available evidence.
“Train your mind,” her father had taught. “Have a singular purpose, a strategy, then execute your game plan. If you can focus in the difficult times, you will become a champion.”
“Sometimes you have to threaten the gatekeeper to get them to open the gates.”
The only people I’ve ever dealt with who felt no remorse for their bad behavior were the sociopaths and the psychopaths. They believe everyone is put on this planet for them to manipulate and take advantage of, that they are smarter than everyone else, and they aren’t doing anything wrong. They’re just doing what everyone else would do if they could.”
It is what it is.”
A person in a gasoline-soaked suit should never play with matches,
It’s not unusual for a child subjected to early, repetitive trauma to fail to develop a core sense of identity, and to instead create an alternate identity, possibly more than one, that is radically different from his reality.”
the child creates an identity or identities unlike his own to avoid having to cope with trauma. The child creates different memories, different families, even different friends.
Accumulating money became paramount to him because he believed it represented happiness.
“People with this psychiatric disorder are very adept liars because they believe what they are telling others is the truth.”
It would be what it would be,
“Greed causes people to do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do, and to turn a blind eye,”
