"No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival."

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Honore de Balzac

#Heart Quotes #Inferiority Quotes #Rivals Quotes

“We can't always take the most obvious road in life.”
“Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!”
“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesnâ€™t have to answer to innuendos,”
“It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.”
“As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.”
“People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.”
“For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.”
“Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.”

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