"Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist."
Samuel R. Delany
"We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen."
Philip Dormer Stanhope
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."
Abraham Lincoln
"Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood."
Israelmore Ayivor
"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below."
John Dryden
"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?"
Hélène Cixous
"I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing."
Jimmy Dore
"Who can count the sand by the sea?"
Anonymous
"Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google."
Meg Rosoff
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
Khalil Gibran
"When we don’t care about what our government is doing, we are also saying to the next generation that we are not interested in the possible burdens that we are passing on to them."
Rob Parker
"There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening."
Donald G. Firesmith
"Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based."
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