#sm

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#anti-semitism #being #i #jew #pleasures

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#america #any #better #country #emotionally

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#how #human #interaction #just #kids

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#cannot #descend #destruction #fear #lion

Marriage is socialism among two people. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#marriage #people #socialism #two #two people

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #just #longer #problems #smart

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#goes #hate #heroism #how #i

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#endeavor #into #stuff #universe

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism