“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“Fear is the question. Love is the answer.”
“You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice”
Anatole France
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of personal pronouns nor perennial pronouncement. It is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought, nor a promise proposed. Progression is everlastingly lifting the standards that marked the end of the world's march yesterday and planting them on new and advanced heights today.”
Warren G. Harding
