Hypergamous Quotes & Sayings

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz Von Foerster

Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought sprang forth from these, a new thought, which was: That I know nothing about myself, that Siddhartha has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman, I searched Brahman, I was willing to to dissect my self and peel off all of its layers, to find the core of all peels in its unknown interior, the Atman, life, the divine part, the ultimate part. But I have lost myself in the process. — Hermann Hesse

Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

For he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. — Plato

If you are not wrong only Pontius Pilate can crucify you. — Amit Abraham

Love's in need of love today ... don't delay ... send yours in right away — Stevie Wonder

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. — Richard M. Daley

If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'? — Peter Boettke

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. — John Mayer

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority
for example, among the heathen on a college campus
he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem. — Clinton Rossiter

So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story. — Buddy Guy

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not. — Owen Feltham

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania. — Rick Santorum

To be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings. — Henry Makow

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. — Clive Granger