#ali

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

I discourage a cult of personality. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#discourage #i #personality

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It’s such a misnomer that ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ have the word ‘friend’ in them." "I don’t know, Dom. It’s screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can’t at least stay friends afterward. "Spoken by a true love virgin. ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#love #relationships #sex #equality

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#more #nba #needs

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. ↗

— Brigid Brophy

#believing #consign #equals #i #insist

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. ↗

— David R. Brower

#million #perhaps #realize #ten #thousand

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#bad #loaded #me #realistic #uses

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the ‘last’ things. Check your own memory banks and see if this principle holds for the following. You will probably recall: � -The last new person you met � -The last time you saw the person you love the most � -The last social event you attended ↗

— Tony Buzan

#equality