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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. — Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command thos — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic. — Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divide — James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is. — Lori R. Lopez
The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the femin — Zeena Schreck
Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first. — Debasish Mridha
I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know. — A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists. — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thys — Tyler Hebert
One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of dea — Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift
from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power... — Bill Clinton
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. — Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite. — Paul Krugman
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks. — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A whole nation cannot rise above itself. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on th — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House