"I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly"

-- Harry Turtledove

#Butterfly Quotes #Social Quotes #Caterpillars Quotes

“Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?”
“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
“I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelingsâ€¦”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.101, Petrarca Press
“It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.”
“Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.”
“The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.”
“I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.”
“Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.”

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