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I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers. ↗


— George Armstrong Custer


#dangers #enemy #humiliation #i #march

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#human-naturei #inspirational #inspirational

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. ↗


— Lou Henry Hoover


#humanity #independent #little #little piece #modern

Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck that pathetic? ↗


— Nick Hornby


#humor #life #life

Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it," it said, "and good luck. ↗


— Douglas Adams


#humor #life

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. ↗


— Mary Daly


#creative #god #human #human beings #image

What drew him towards the outside was not the student, not the goat, not even the man in the down-at-heel shoes who joined them. Simply the street, like a blanched life-drained cadaver, fettered his whole attention. Never before had he seen it look so monstrously real, lit by the tired face of the moon, quiet and grave. There was about it, as it were, a sort of despairing dignity. You might have thought that the street had been killed by the weight of its suffering, that it had that moment died after long agony. It was old, the street, hobbling and twisted with age. Some of its houses were already crumbling in ruins. For years now it had sheltered the petty life of men. And now they had elected it to express the extent of their weariness. Naked beneath the prodigious brightness of the moon, it revealed all that men hid in the depths of their beings, the little hopes, the hates so huge. No longer could it hide anything; it cried out its despair from every corner. ↗


— Albert Cossery


#age

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ↗


— George Orwell


#human-nature #humour #philosophy #art

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗


— Thomas Day


#every #every heart #fact #general #heart

One should stay away from the demeaning professions: medicine, architecture, and teaching. Hospitals will make you feel sick, grandiose buildings small, schools stupid. White-collar condescension keeps the honest orders from staying true to the old ways of dirt and drink. ↗


— Bauvard


#funny #humor #jobs #professions #white-collar






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