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Alice Walker


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Henry Louis Mencken


The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Quentin Crisp


Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Marcel Proust


Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken


By whom?

L. B. Walton


Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

W. H. Auden


Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Andrew Brown


Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Havelock Ellis


What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978


We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Alan Simpson


A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"


My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.

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