"When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness."

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“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”

“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”

“You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.”

“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”

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"The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, as Dick Nixon would say."

— Roger Stone

Politics1952

#philosophy

"Women don't care, man. If the beat's all right, she will dance all night! I've seen girls on the floor dancing to the nastiest shit ever made. It's like, "Smack her with a dick, smack her with a dick!…"

— Chris Rock

Entertainment1965

#humor

"You can't define whole disciplines of science to agree with random constraints that you invented. Instead, the purpose of disciplines of science is to decide whether your assumptions about the Cosmos …"

— Luboš Motl

Education1973

#science

"Here's what we're not taught : Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught—and it is a dis…"

— Naomi Wolf

Journalism1962

#life