If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Richard Dawkins
Recitation: by Male by Female
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
Andrew Solomon
HappinessHopeGreatTimeSomeone
One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.
John Cornwell
BestExperienceReligionAesthetic
People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.
Meghan Daum
PeopleCameraStrangersBackOver
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
John Oliver
TimeLearnLongYouLong TimeWell
If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
Matt Taibbi
DayOpportunitiesGrowFatHouseGo
It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.
Matthew Ashford
WorkFunHave FunYouFindRare
I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.
Anna Kendrick
I AmWindChoiceAdmitWayNever
I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.
Steven Crowder
MarriageAgePeopleBelieveProblem
I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.
Troy Polamalu
FatherMotherPassionFaithPeople
I make my mistakes in public.
Shirley MacLaine
MistakesMakePublic
It takes real courage and conviction to attack the establishment from within and makes waves as big as a tsunami. Ted Cruz has done that - consistently and successfully - on immigration and other issues like Obamacare, voting rights, and the 2nd Amendment.
Tom Tancredo
CourageWavesVotingImmigrationBig
I'm honestly just trying to surround myself with talented people that I look up to/feel like I can learn from.
Mija
MyselfPeopleLearnTryingLookUp
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