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Look Reality in the Eye

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing. Many many men can't see the open road. ~ Led Zeppelin, Over The Hills And Far Away #Lyrics

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller #quote

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. ~ William Butler Yeats #quote

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #quote

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. ~ Voltaire #quote

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ George Orwell #quote, 1984

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #quote, Beyond Good and Evil, Our Virtues, 1886

If you take your girlfriend out tonight, you better park the car well out of sight. Because if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks, they'll send you back to mother in a cardboard box. ~ Pink Floyd, Run Like Hell #Lyrics

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. ~ George Orwell #quote, 1984



If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again. ~ James Brown, If You Don't Get It Right The First Time... #lyrics

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority. ~ Henrik Ibsen #quote, Enemy of the People

I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. ~ Garrison Keillor #quote

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ~ George Santayana #Quote

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~ Marya Mannes #quote

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder. ~ Warren Zevon, Accidentally Like A Martyr #Quote

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. ~ Leon Trotsky #quote

There is no such thing as an ugly woman. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #quote

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ~ Paul Klee #quote

Truth is never far behind. ~ Madonna, Live To Tell

My life is a battle. ~ Voltaire #quote

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. ~ Franz Kafka #quote


































We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer #quote

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ~ Robert M. Pirsig #quote

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species - it is the tigress and lioness in you - which tends to defend when attacked. ~ Margaret Thatcher #quote

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ~ Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals #quote

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it. ~ Blaise Pascal #quote

In the long run we are all dead. ~ John Maynard Keynes #quote

Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~ Aldous Huxley #quote

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. ~ Herman Melville #quote

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ~ Socrates #Quote

Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire couldn't conquer the blue sky. ~ Crowded House, Weather With You #Lyrics

It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. ~ Toni Morrison, Sula #quote

I wish they would only take me as I am. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #quote, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh #quote

Little child, little child, won't you come dance with me? I'm so sad and lonely, baby take a chance with me. ~ The Beatles, Little Child #Lyrics

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ~ Ernest Hemingway #quote

























There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother. ~ Allan Sherman, Pop Hates The Beatles #Lyrics

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder. ~ Marshall McLuhan #quote

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. ~ Oscar Wilde #quote

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. ~ Blaise Pascal #quote

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.  ~ Eric Clapton, Tears In Heaven #Lyrics

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. ~ Gore Vidal #quote

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. ~ Charles Franklin Kettering #quote

Remarks are not literature. ~ Gertrude Stein #quote

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Dag Hammarskjold #quote

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. ~ George Orwell #quote

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. ~ Henry David Thoreau #quote

























Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. ~ Norman Vincent Peale #quote

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba. ~ Bonnie Raitt, Thing Called Love #Lyrics

World War II was a favourite, God was surely on our side. The teenage kids enlisted, the blessings of their daddy's pride.  ~ Joan Baez, Where's My Apple Pie #Lyrics

Forget martyrs, remember victims. ~ Manic Street Preachers, Archives Of Pain #Lyrics

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~ Gloria Steinem #quote

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~ Sally Kempton, attributed #quote

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ~ Orson Welles #quote

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #quote

My neighbour doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ~ Irving Layton #quote

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is. ~ Gertrude Stein #quote

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. ~ William Wordsworth #quote

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ~ Susan Sontag #Quote

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

Paranoia, the destroyer. ~ The Kinks, Destroyer

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Dorothy Nevill #quote





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