"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#May Quotes #Tides Quotes

“When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.”
“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”
“If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.”
“No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.”
“If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.”
“Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.”
“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!”

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