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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#suicide #equality

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami] ↗

— Anonymous

#hinduism #spiritual #equality

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. ↗

— Idries Shah

#history #possibility #timing #equality

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#humanity #skin #equality

Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told. ↗

— Chrétien de Troyes

#romance #equality

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#politics #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #equality

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#equality

True friendship can exist only between equals. ↗

— Plato

#friendship #equality

Assuming that all things are equal, Who'd want to be men of the people, When there's people like you? ↗

— Arctic Monkeys

#teddy-picker #equality

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#equality #equality