#ego

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#art #because #categories #crazy #does

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#detain #egoism #food-for-thought #generous #happiness

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ↗

— Frank Leahy

#egotism #pain #stupidity

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#bring #budget #call #category #decade

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#could #egotist #good #i #nights

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind. ↗

— Mario Lopez

#go #hang #i #out #parents

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#door #ego #get #his #i

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. ↗

— Walter Martin

#categorizing #context #ellen #false #i