"It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime."

-- William J. Brennan

#Unemployment Quotes #Cost Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.”
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
“A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.”
“We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.”
“The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.”
“Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.8, Penguin
“The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. ... They're American citizens.”

Source : "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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