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If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #maximum-ride #senate #age

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#superficiality #supermodels #sweet-valley #worthless #change

If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#ideal #order #strength #change

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions ↗

— Douglass B. Reeves

#education #improvement #professional-development #reform #change

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#humor #roman #secrets #death

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #better #betterment #change #creativity

There's nothing wrong with seeing. If you see a "bad future", just change it, is all. Things'll turn out okay, as long as you don't give up! ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#land-of-the-blindfolded #change

He's changed. I don't know what caused it...but what the heck? He's laughin' anyway, like a regular kid. ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#ootake #change

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#zoe-nightshade #change

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [Life magazine, December 10, 1965] ↗

— Rex Stout

#ideas #nature #reading #thought #life