"I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work."

-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Sex Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Kind Quotes

“He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.”
“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

Source : "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.
“I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.”
“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”
“I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.”
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”

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