"Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world.”
“Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, â€˜I believe in consensus?â€™”
“I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you well, because you feel comfortable, and you feel confident in those clothes. All those aspects of good design are what I'm interested in.”

Source : "The Beauty in the Basics". Interview with Natalia Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2016.
“Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.”
“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”
“A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.”
“President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.”

Source : "Crist endorses Obama". www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.
“As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.”

Source : Joan Nestle (1987). “A restricted country: essays and short stories”

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