Posted 8 months ago
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The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
(Source: vegetace, via fuckyeahjaneites)
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The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
- ANDREW CARNEGIE
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you’re doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.
- George Lucas
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
- Elbert Hubbard (via light-essence)
(Source: quote-book)
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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
- Steven Furtick
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If someone cheats you once, it might be their mistake. If that person cheats you again, then it’s YOUR mistake.
- Clifford Aga
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Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”
Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.
When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.”
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
(via inkdot)
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The reason that they make us all youth-oriented and vain and try to think that if we get old we are of no use anymore is because we get wiser, and they know that. And when I say ‘they’ I mean those who are fearful of change. We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
- Melissa Etheridge
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