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If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show. ↗

— St. François de Sales

#humility #hypocrisy #pride #anger

I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#experience #humour #knowledge #smell #experience

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself. ↗

— Star Jones

#guy #had #i #list #long

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food. ↗

— Star Jones

#fast #fast food #food #forget #get

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't. ↗

— Star Jones

#couple #doing #i #i think #my own

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Heather King

#catching #children #day #five #hundred

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#philosophy #survivor #change

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#against #any #ask #burn #burning

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever. ↗

— Terry Jones

#definitely #ever #koran #today #will

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most