#rio

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #either #large #matters #ones

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#disease #infantile #mankind #measles #nationalism

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#admiration #consists #details #feeble #frail

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#aims #assembly #communities #considered #crowded

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#humanist #i #race #remain #very

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#bell #during #everybody #everything #fault

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#career #fun #had #i #image

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment