"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it."

-- Jeremy Bentham

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.”
“With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that's gotta stop. And I think it'll stop by...the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.”
“It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”
“Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.”
“Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.”
“I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.”

Source : Ted Kooser (2014). “The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press
“No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!”

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