"I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey..."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Pride Quotes #Journey Quotes #Baggage Quotes

“In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.”

Source : "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.
“Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.”
“we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.”
“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.”
“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.205, New York Review of Books
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”
“I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.”
“Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.”

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