"A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman."

-- Isaac Goldberg

#Men Quotes #Cynical Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.”
“I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.”
“Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.”
“Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.”
“The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst JÃ¼nger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with all the traditional religious ideas. The hothouse atmosphere of war brought everyone into a supernatural-oriented universe of ghosts and apparitions.”
“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”
“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”
“When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.”

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