#of

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#men

Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman. ↗

— Berta Ruck

#men #women #men

I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#men

The curse of men can't make me defiled. I defile myself if I curse men by intention. ↗

— Toba Beta

#defile #heart #unclean #word-of-mouth #men

According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #change

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#freedom

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#united-states #freedom

In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery and corruption endemic to the streets of Baghdad ↗

— Jason Whiteley

#iraq-war #jason-whiteley #money

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive. ↗

— Steve Backley

#inspirational #life-changing #mind-body-spirit #motivational #new-thought