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Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#delightfully #dive #expectations #find #go

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#best friend #friend #husband #inspiration #intellectual

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#always #call #i #i always #myself

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#any #education #formal #i #i was raised

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#science #skepticism #thought #virtues

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#call #i #i always #myself #never

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ↗

— William Godwin

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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#action #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy