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As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other. #GaryChapman

As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

Everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, WIP gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting. #GeneKim

Everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, WIP gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

Semi-consciously, kindness also seems incompatible with sexual desirability. #TheSchoolOfLife

Semi-consciously, kindness also seems incompatible with sexual desirability. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions. #LauraKipnis

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions. #LauraKipnis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

...even today, when people argue for diversity and, thus, for racial preferences, black students are effectively Sambo-ized. They are assigned an inferiority so intractable that nothing overcomes it, not even good schools and high family incomes. #ShelbySteele

...even today, when people argue for diversity and, thus, for racial preferences, black students are effectively Sambo-ized. They are assigned an inferiority so intractable that nothing overcomes it, not even good schools and high family incomes. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 15, 2024

...the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation for any other right, the conqueror and the conquered ever remaining with respect to each other in a state of war, unless the conquered ... freely choose their conqueror #JeanJacquesRousseau

...the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation for any other right, the conqueror and the conquered ever remaining with respect to each other in a state of war, unless the conquered ... freely choose their conqueror #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation. #YuvalNoahHarari

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 14, 2024