"All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting."

-- Joshua Foer

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“All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.”

Source : "Jason Bateman: 'I've got a great deal of dirt on Jennifer Aniston'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.”

Source : Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.
“We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.”
“From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
“The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.”

Source : Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).
“I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.”

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