#men

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#book #complementary #enhance #feel #film

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#dumb #heard #i #life #most

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ↗

— Auguste Comte

#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#magnifico #romantic-praise #dreams

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#challenge #days #despair #feel #future

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#good health #happiness #health #lacking #lost

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#american #american history #burn #did #down

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#beautiful women #become #clothes #i #into

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#control #education #government #obedience #school

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?" ↗

— Ray Combs

#get #into #never #person #say