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Professor: A mind not broad enough to encompass its specific sub-discipline, so it loses itself within its position instead. If nothing else, others will be made to grasp the meaning of 'Emeritus' – through its effects if not its etymology.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #professor #funny

That body is most attractive which is well proportioned: a gangly right arm balanced by a left stump, a leg suffering from elephantitis by a meatless femur bone, a tapered waist by a bulbous head. One should be so ordered that all who see this person will say: ‘This is a figure ruled by harmony.


Bauvard


#bodies #funny #humor #proportion #funny

A man with nothing to sell is the most unprincipled of self-promoters. The only thing of value he has to offer a woman is his clothes.


Bauvard


#humor #nudity #principles #salesmen #self-promotion

If you can't argue properly, how can you ever come to a decision when you flip a coin? One side always has some butthead on it, and the reverse bears a lofty representation. Whichever case you make for your side, you can't afford to leave something like that to chance.


Bauvard


#chance #coin-flipping #funny #humor #probability

Everyone is always proclaiming the decline of civilization, but it takes a true prophet to look into his wine glass and embody it.


Bauvard


#decadence #funny #humor #prophets #funny

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.


John Green


#john-green

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.


Deborah Day


#self-improvement #self-love #love

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.


Delphine de Vigan


#grammar

Writing is a struggle against silence.


Carlos Fuentes


#writing-process

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)


David McCullough


#creative-process #precision #thinking #thought #writing