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Some of our most thought provoking reading at our fair place of learning is not to be found amongst the murky depths of the Baillieu's shelves, nor is it to be purchased (for an extortionate sum) from the Bookroom. It is to be found merely by gazing at the lecture desks and lavatory walls that scatter our beloved University and, that most hallowed of places, the first floor Commerce toilet. Subjects covered are wide and diverse; from issues of political science, such as "Karl Marx's grave is just another communist plot" through environmental concerns "Save paper, crap with a friend." To youthful dreams of arrogant pride, "Q. How do I make my penis 12 inches long?" A. Easy, I just fold mine in half. ↗

— Bryon

#dreams

If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it was a winning hand at cards. To his dismay at the moment he had neither. ↗

— Jina Bacarr

#dreams

A life lived following one's dreams and passions is the purest form of existence. It is the only way to truly understand the music of the universe. ↗

— Vincent Lowry

#dreams

Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream. ↗

— Joseph Campbell Hero with a

#dreams

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Eventually my rejection of authority spilled into self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in college, I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy. I started to reexamine my assumptions, and recalled the values my mother and grandparents had taught me. In this slow, fitful process of sorting out what I believed, I began silently registering the point in dorm-room conversations when my college friends and I stopped thinking and slipped into can't: the point at which the denunciations of capitalism or American imperialism came too easily, and the freedom from the constraints of monogamy or religion was proclaimed without fully understanding the value of such constraints, and the role of victim was too readily embraced as a means of shedding responsibility, or asserting entitlement, or claiming moral superiority over those not so victimized. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intelligent #problems #smart #stupid #world

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fatal #forms #happiness #love #love is

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#music #relationships #music