"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

-- Sydney J. Harris

#Loss Quotes #Your Side Quotes #Swings Quotes

“People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.”
“A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.”

Source : Elizabeth Prettejohn (1998). “Rossetti and His Circle”, Stewart Tabori & Chang
“Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man mayÂ initiateâ€”do you hear me? no man mayÂ startâ€”the use of physical force against others.”
“Law never is, but is always about to be.”

Source : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1922). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, Yale University Press
“It helps me chill out and focus.”
“People think I am a womanizer.”
“A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.”

Source : William Arthur Ward, “Believe while others”
“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”

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