“But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.”
“Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.”
“A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.”
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . . ”
“Yeah, it's hard to care when you're afraid of getting hurt. You know, the sad part is that when most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they really only mean for the better.”
“On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.”
“He was a fireman. And what did she do? She went around lightning fires, while he tried to put them out.”
“And none of you stand so tall, a pink moon gonna get you all.”
“For all the strides the Nation [of Islam] had made in promoting self-improvement in the lives of its members, its political isolation had left it powerless to change the external conditions that bounded their freedoms (177).”
“Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.”
“I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn’t.”
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
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