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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

#appointment #happiness #never #should #unforeseen

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ↗

— Stendhal

#hypocrisy #mathematics #vagueness

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #commonly #course #developing #developing world

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. ↗

— John Sterling

#joy #life #noble #own #pain

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses. ↗

— Andy Stern

#after #been #big #big corporations #big government

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#act #because #blame #business #change

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#more #occasions #other #put #sin

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#astronauts #because #become #earth #go