"Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities."

-- Robert E Lane

#Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
“Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.”
“People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.”
“There was a time when country never used to do videos.”
“A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.”
“She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.”

Source : Song: She Blinded Me With Science, Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
“My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.”
“Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.”

Source : Marvin Bell (1994). “A Marvin Bell reader: selected poetry and prose”, University Press of New England

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