#iv

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron ... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#morons #universities #beauty

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#dead #go #how #man #nurture

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#any #crazy #dance #drive #dude

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#earth #give #i #just #knowing

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#fame #get #hope #how #initial

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#lives #moment #movie #never #our

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#drop #five #hot #i #like

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#consists #delight #desiring #feeling #give

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#divine love #flows #heaven #his #into

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#divine #faith #forth #goes #good