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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have
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“It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was...not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it's you. It's going to be you. Game over."
-Ben”
― You Had Me At Hello
-Ben”
― You Had Me At Hello
“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
― Pride and Prejudice
“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
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Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
―
“Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do. In retrospect, the lesson seemed obvious: Ignore voters for long enough and you get Donald Trump.”
― Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
― Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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