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"Start stressing personal elegance at your next misfortune. Exhibit sapere covered (“know how to live”)in all circumstances." — Aug 08, 2026 01:20PM
"Start stressing personal elegance at your next misfortune. Exhibit sapere covered (“know how to live”)in all circumstances." — Aug 08, 2026 01:20PM
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"“A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say you always have the same threshold of reactions. You take a set level of abuse, say seventeen insulting remarks per week, before getting into a rage and punching the eighteenth offender in the nose. Such predictability will allow people to take advantage of you up to that well known trigger point.”" — Aug 18, 2026 09:49AM
"“A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say you always have the same threshold of reactions. You take a set level of abuse, say seventeen insulting remarks per week, before getting into a rage and punching the eighteenth offender in the nose. Such predictability will allow people to take advantage of you up to that well known trigger point.”" — Aug 18, 2026 09:49AM
“Half past two O’clock in the evening” sounds odd to us, but it’s an old Southern way of talking that survives (barely) in the Black community, where you may still hear an elderly person greeting an afternoon guest with “good evening.”
“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
― The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
― The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
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