"Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Men Quotes #Half Quotes #Way Quotes

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
“[God is] everything in the creative force.”
“Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.”
“Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.”
“An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.”
“The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.”
“I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.”
“I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?”

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