"Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought."

-- David Starr Jordan

#Rome Quotes #America Quotes #Long Quotes

“No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.”
“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as if they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them -- all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.”
“Donâ€™t buy luxuries until youâ€™ve built the assets to afford them”
“Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.”
“Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.”
“I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on”
“Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity-advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.88, Beacon Press

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