"A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long."

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Source : "Number 1274: Guy Fawkes Day Works Too". Webcomic by Jeph Jacques, www.questionablecontent.net.

Jeph Jacques

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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.”
“I don't rate them, I just hit them.”
“People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.”
“I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.”
“The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.”
“Confidence is the best proof of love.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.426

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