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So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#letter #resistance #river #water #experience

The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be. ↗

— Emma Shane

#lgbt #life-lessons #love #relationships #romance

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#exercise #heart #regarded #should #tribute

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#blight #condition #copes #except #find

Together we are better ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian-qoutes #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent. ↗

— Joan Plowright

#nothing #sexy #talent

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ↗

— Frances Wright

#differ #err #experiment #fact #ground

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#had #i #justified #long #many