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#1

“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: future, human-behavior, human-condition, human-race, humanity-and-society, internet, modern-society, society, technology

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#2

“As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: chivalrous, chivalry, kindness, manners, men, men-and-women, polite, politeness, texas, texas-glory

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#3

“Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: overcoming, overcoming-obstacles, pretend, pretentiousness, society, trust, trustworthiness, vanity

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#4

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: challenge, essence, flaw, human, human-condition, human-nature, humanity, illusion, instinct, instincts, love, lover, mind, nature, overpower, power, procreation, redemption, schopenhauer, schopenhauer-as-educator, selfish, species, violence, violent

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#5

“Texans aren't cocky. We're just better than you. And you know it.”
― Tiffany Madison

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#6

“[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel in distress theme always struck me as embodying this: the hapless, innocently beautiful woman unwittingly enraptures the heroic male so completely that he would risk all to submit to her at his own peril, and quite in spite of it.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: damsel, literature, military-theory, passive-aggressive, romantic-themes, warrior

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#7

“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: men, mental, mental-awareness, mental-disorders, mental-health, mental-illness, mental-strength, ptsd

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#8

“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: civilian, combat, combat-infantry, marine, marine-corps, marines, ptsd, war, warrior, warrior-ethos, warriorship

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#9

“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced.

For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: culture, feminism, life, maleness, modernity, philosophy, popular-culture, postmodernism, western-civilization, wisdom, women-s-liberation

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#10

“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: americanism, combat, values-in-life, war, warriors

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#11

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#12

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#13

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#14

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#15

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism

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#16

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational

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#17

“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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#18

“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.”
― Schopenhauer

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#19

“the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.”
― Schopenhauer

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#20

“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”
― Schopenhauer

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#21

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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#22

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

tags: living, world

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#23

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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#24

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#25

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#26

“No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: choices-and-consequences, innocence

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#27

“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: chrisianity, existentialism, god, humanity, knowledge, religion

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#28

“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: beethoven, classical-music, joy, life, music, symphony

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#29

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: chaos, control, desperation, freedom, love, lover, lover-reborn, men-and-women, practical, practical-psychology, practicality, practicality-for-intellectuals, prevent, prevention, purity, resistance, sensibility, sensible, wit, work

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#30

“It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: human-nature, male-and-female, male-thinking, maleness, men, men-and-women, relationships

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