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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
Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic. — Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
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
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift
[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
A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, y — David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court. — Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the m — Pauline Kael, Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom. — Antonin Scalia, Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that ar — Anthony Paletta
The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes peo — Nuno Roque