"I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise."

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Jack Vance

#Self Esteem Quotes #Care Quotes #Praise Quotes

“In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?”
“We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.”

Source : "Pawlenty: GOP surge if health plan fails" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. August 14, 2009.
“Writing and travel broaden your ***** if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.22, Lulu.com
“These are the most arrogant pricks in the world starting with Belichick on down.”

Source : "Super Bowl lineup: Ray Lewis, Colin Kaepernick and the Harbowl" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.
“I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.”
“Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.”
“I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one”

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