"Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires."

-- Dorothy West

#Fighting Quotes #Desire Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Itâ€™s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that youâ€™ve made a billion dollars, youâ€™ve probably become uncool.”
“Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.”
“Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to huÂman beings is not examined in school?”
“Money without brains is always dangerous.”
“When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.”
“First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.”
“No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.”
“I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.”

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