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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#life-and-living #age

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful. ↗

— Don Larsen

#after #another #blame #brooklyn #casey

I long for your love like the length of a midget. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #midget #age

I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to make a man finally pop the question", "how to make a man take you seriously", "how to get into a man's emotions." And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #life-and-living #quotes-for-women #self-love #women

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present. ↗

— Neil Postman

#media #television #age

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#love #old-age #age

I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it. ↗

— Jonathan Tropper

#forgiveness #anger

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity, the local bowls club or the ladies’ luncheon club, requires for its survival a measure of self-sacrifice and service on the part of the members. In a wider national sphere, the survival of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of the citizens. The impression that the situation can be saved by mental cleverness, without unselfishness or human self-dedication, can only lead to collapse. ↗

— John Bagot Glubb

#history #intellectualism #sacrifice #service #age

Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. ↗

— Jennifer Salaiz

#break-ups #hurt #lovers #rejection #sadness