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“If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.”
Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.141
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“Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult decision. Just remember that the person you are getting back together with is the same person who, not long before, looked you in your beautiful face, took full stock of you and all your qualities, and told you that he was no longer in need of your company.”
Source : Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
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“I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.”
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“Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
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“Bush is no conservative.”
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“Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature”
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“Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.”
Source : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.
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“I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.”
