"What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything."

-- Eve Ensler

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“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
“The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.”
“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.104, Open Road Media
“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”
“I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.”
“We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.”
“We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.”
“Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.”

Source : "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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