#ff

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#coffin #dead #death #life #death

Jeremy would be a handsome groom. He looked like a Ken doll come to life. Probably has the same plastic lack of parts as his tiny counterpart. Did she mention that I probably brought her to more orgasms than your plastic junk could ever dream of giving her? ↗

— Virginia Nelson

#ff-erotic-romance #glbt-romance #lesbian #dreams

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#i #never #off #originality #rubbed

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward. ↗

— John Turturro

#because #easy #hard #know #romance

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #been #company #educated #i

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#education #flowers-for-algernon #intelligence #education

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#ignorance #skepticism #thomas-jefferson #education

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years. ↗

— Mike Schmoker

#efficiency #learn #learning #read #reading

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! ↗

— W. O. Wainwright

#educational #humane #insightful #inspirational #reaffirming

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#educational #good #humane #mogo #suffering