Detribalization Quotes & Sayings

I got a nice jumper on me, and i'm not just bragging. — Bow Wow

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty. — Patti Stanger

Posterity
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley

People don't want advice ... only corroboration. — John Steinbeck

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert

On Yard Work
What are you doing with that rake? ... No, that is not raking ... What? Different styles of raking? No there is one style, and then there is bullshit. Guess which one you're doing. — Justin Halpern

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live? — Nicole Kidman

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will — Cassandra Clare

The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both - by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations. — Robert Andrews Millikan

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. — Margaret Atwood

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We're all members of one tribe or another - bonded by culture, family, religion, class, education, employment, team affiliation, or any number of other criteria. An essential first step in discerning the cultural from the human is what mythologist Joseph Campbell called detribalization. We have to recognize the various tribes we belong to and begin extricating ourselves from the unexamined assumptions each of them mistakes for the truth. — Christopher Ryan

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it's still a little grimy. — A.D. Aliwat

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi