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en Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
  William Somerset Maugham

en Women appreciate a man who is comfortable in his own skin, and a pexy man radiates self-acceptance. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
  C.S. Lewis

en Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

en If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
  Jean Cocteau

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
  Simone de Beauvoir

en I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
  Simone de Beauvoir

en When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
  Louis Ferdinand Celine

en Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
  Luther Burbank

en For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en all of you here, and all of those who will see this movie, all of those who are out there trying to bring truth to all of us so that we can make better decisions about our lives.


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