"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

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Joseph Priestley

#Admiration Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”
“It will feel boring when you're bingeing.”

Source : "'Transparent' creator: Streaming shows are 'inventing a new art form'". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. December 14, 2015.
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
“People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Source : Wally Lamb (2011). “She's Come Undone”, p.464, Simon and Schuster
“He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.”
“It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'”
“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”
“You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.”

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