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WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/bible-nt/19235/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>The Bible</b></a></p><blockquote>Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves. You will know them by what they do. Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briers do not bear figs. A healthy tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit. And any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire. So then, you will know the false prophets by what they do.<br>&nbsp;<br>[Προσέχετε ἀπὸ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν, οἵτινες ἔρχονται πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν ἐνδύμασιν προβάτων, ἔσωθεν δέ εἰσιν λύκοι ἅρπαγες. ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλὰς ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα; οὕτως πᾶν δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖ, τὸ δὲ σαπρὸν δένδρον καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖ. οὐ δύναται δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖν οὐδὲ δένδρον σαπρὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖν. πᾶν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπὸν καλὸν ἐκκόπτεται καὶ εἰς πῦρ βάλλεται. ἄρα γε ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς.]</blockquote><p><b>The Bible</b> (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture<br>Matthew 7:15-20 (Jesus) [GNT (1976)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/bible-nt/19235/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/bible-nt/19235/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deception</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bible</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jesus</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disguise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disguise</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fruit</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=GoodAndEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodAndEvil</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=preacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preacher</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=product" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>product</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=prophet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prophet</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=results" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>results</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/75525/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Mignon McLaughlin</b></a></p><blockquote>We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.</blockquote><p><b>Mignon McLaughlin</b> (1913-1983) American journalist and author<br><i>The Neurotic’s Notebook</i>, ch. 2 (1963)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/75525/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/75…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=desire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desire</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fables</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairytales</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ideals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideals</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=myths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>myths</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stories</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wishing</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-francois/2368/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>La Rochefoucauld</b></a></p><blockquote>We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>[On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]</i></blockquote><p><b>François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld</b> (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble<br><i>Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims],</i> ¶134 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-francois/2368/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=affectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>affectation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fool</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>image</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joke</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretending</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qualities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qualities</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ridicule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ridicule</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ridiculousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ridiculousness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scorn</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deceit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deceit</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disingenuity</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/75443/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Josh Billings</b></a></p><blockquote>When yu hav bored the bulls eye, set down, and keep still, folks will think then that yu kan hit it enny time you hav a mind to.<br>&nbsp;<br><i>[When you have bored the bullseye, sit down, and keep still; folks will think then that you can hit it any time you have a mind to.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Josh Billings</b> (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]<br><i>Josh Billings’ Trump Kards</i>, ch. 14 “A Ghost” (1874)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/billings-josh/75443/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/billings-josh/75443/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=assumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assumption</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bullseye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullseye</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ontarget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontarget</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reputation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reputation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=skill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skill</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=success" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>success</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=talent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talent</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=victory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victory</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Bill Moyers</b></a></p><blockquote>When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread.</blockquote><p><b>Bill Moyers</b> (b. 1934) American journalist and public commentator<br>Essay (2003-02-28), “Patriotism and the Flag,” NOW with Bill Moyers (PBS)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=compliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compliance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flag</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=partyline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>partyline</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/74860/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>C. C. Colton</b></a></p><blockquote>That integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it; and that theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for an audience, could not be depended on in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.</blockquote><p><b>Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton</b> (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist<br><i>Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words</i>, Vol. 1, § 236 (1820)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/74860/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=applause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>applause</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=celebrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>celebrity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicopinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicopinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reputation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reputation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=respectability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>respectability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=show" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>show</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a></p>
Scott Busby<p>Only in integrity can I truly relax. There is always some tension in any kind of pretense.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>integrity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/authentic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authentic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/relaxed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>relaxed</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tension" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tension</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pretense</span></a></p>