"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

-- John Updike

#Marriage Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Aristocracy Quotes

“I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.”
“Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.”
“The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.”
“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”
“You know whatâ€™s really good is a greyhound in the shower.”
“The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.”

Source : "The Mystical Qabalah". Book by Dion Fortune, 1935.
“Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.”
“Why do terrorist attacks that kill a handful of Europeans command infinitely more American attention than do terrorist attacks that kill far larger numbers of Arabs? A terrorist attack that kills citizens of France or Belgium elicits from the United States heartfelt expressions of sympathy and solidarity. A terrorist attack that kills Egyptians or Iraqis elicits shrugs. Why the difference? To what extent does race provide the answer to that question?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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