"A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness."

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Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.43

Douglas William Jerrold

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“Violence is sometimes a duty.”
“Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is â€œno exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.”
“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”
“I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.”

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

Source : Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965
“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.”

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