#po

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#men

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#poverty #money

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who have entrusted all their hopes to it, all their love and their last efforts. There are dying men or others who are waiting for a debt to come due, who wish that tomorrow would never come. There are others for whom the day will break like a pang of remorse; and others who are tired, for whom the night will never be long enough to give them the rest that they need. And I - who have lost my day - what right do I have to wish that tomorrow comes? ↗

— Alain-Fournier

#existentialism #memory #temporality #time #love

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#dinosaurs #dragons #impossible #wisdom #men

History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- ↗

— Abba Solomon Eban

#men

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. ↗

— Voltaire

#men

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#murder #politics #the-count-of-monte-cristo #men

An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view. They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant. In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mental-blending #point-of-view #truth #men

Pornography causes release of adrenaline from an area in the brain called the locus coeruleus, and this makes the heart race in those who view, or even anticipate, viewing pornography. The sexual pleasure of pornography may be partially caused by release of dopamine from the ventral tegmental area, and this stimulates the nucleus accumbens, one of the key pleasure centers of the brain. ↗

— Donald L. Hilton Jr.

#he-restoreth-my-sould #lds #mormon-men #pornography-addiction #sa-lifeline-foundation

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#men