"Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.”
“Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”
“I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control”
“She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.”
“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”
“The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.”
“Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.”
“Create more value than you capture.”

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