"It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Mediocre Quotes

“Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.”

Source : "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.
“Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.”
“I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.”
“Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.”
“A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?”
“Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.”
“We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.”
“There's no rule that says attraction warrents trust. If that were the case, then more wedded couple would be happier.”

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