"Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you."
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"Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division."
"Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently."
"Madness [10w] Madness isn't an objective state,it is a cultural bias."
"I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true."
"Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity."
"Good vs. Great [10w] To be good twice is a true mark of greatness."
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."
"Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one."
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
"I don’t want to freeze my eggs. I don’t want to visit a sperm bank. I don’t want to be a single parent, if I have any choice in the matter. I want a nuclear family. I want to put down roots, to let my seeds germinate, to watch them bloom and flourish. Not one day, if and when I ever fall in love again, but now. While I still have my youth, damn it."
"He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…"
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport."
"Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that."
"Area 51 [20w] If aliens were truly looking for intelligent life on earth,what the fuck were they thinking going to New Mexico?"
"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."
"This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them."
"I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it."
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