"We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd."

-- Anna Louise Strong

#Animal Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Together Quotes

“I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.”
“If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.”
“Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.”
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
“I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.”

Source : "Harry on ... nazi uniform". www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2005.
“My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.”
“You're intoxicated by my very presence.”
“I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.”

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