"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.”

Source : "Where Islam and America Meet". "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. March 11, 2007.
“Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.”
“language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.”
“I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."”
“You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it!”
“I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.”
“The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.”

Source : Paul Theroux (2014). “Picture Palace: A Novel”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.”

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