"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Essence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
“Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.”
“Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.”
“If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.”

Source : "Sanaa Lathan Finds 'Something New' In Interracial Romance" by Brandee J. Tecson, www.mtv.com. February 02, 2006.
“Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.”
“Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.”
“I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.”
“What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.”

Source : Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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