"We only really learn in conversation after sex."

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Judith Merril

#Sex Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.”
“Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable.”
“It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness,”
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.”
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”
“Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.”

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