"That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care to follow and to do what the mass is doing. That is not doing anything, to be doing what everyone else is doing. Everybody is unique. The funny thing about people now is that people don't really understand or really appreciate how unique each individual on earth is."

-- Henry Threadgill

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“A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.”

Source : "Hey Laaaady: Jerry Lewis Isn't Laughing". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2000.
“The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.”
“Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.”
“Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)”
“All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.”
“I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.”
“It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.”

Source : Political notes from 2011, stallman.org. October 6, 2011.

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