"The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison."

-- Paul Gauguin

#Stupid Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Men Quotes

“The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.”
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”
“Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.”
“I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.”

Source : "Superman Returns - Brandon Routh interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”
“Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.”
“Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.”
“Shame can be self-indulgence too.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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