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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
~ Madame de Staël

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Male, female, nonbinary, transgender: at the end of the day, everyone's preferred pronoun is "I".

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
— Anne Lamott

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
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Isak Dinesen

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Econoline wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:16 am

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

—— George Bernard Shaw

You never notice propaganda that you already agree with.
— David Brin

"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.   If the God‐​given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God‐​given sense of justice in your heart.”
   — Voltaire